Macrocoma tenuis(Hook. & Grev.) Vitt

Sullivant's macrocoma moss

WFO wfo-0001169978 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Macrocoma tenuis, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. a Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-11-18 / obs. 56505446
Macrocoma tenuis, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. b Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134493457
Macrocoma tenuis, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. c Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134493477
Macrocoma tenuis, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. d Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54515376
Macrocoma tenuis, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. e Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54515383
Macrocoma tenuis, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. f Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54515393
Macrocoma tenuis, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. g Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54515403

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 42 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Coleochaetium capense (Broth.) Broth.
  • Leiomitrium capense Broth.
  • Macrocoma intricata (Müll.Hal.) H.A.Mill., H.Whittier & B.Whittier
  • Macrocoma perrottetii (Müll.Hal.) D.T.T.Daniels, Ben & A.E.D.Daniels
  • Macrocoma pycnangia (Müll.Hal. ex Broth.) Sehnem
  • Macrocoma sullivantii (Müll.Hal.) Grout
  • Macromitrium adelphinum Cardot
  • Macromitrium anacamptophyllum Müll.Hal.
  • Macromitrium bolivianum Müll.Hal.
  • Macromitrium braunioides Cardot
  • Macromitrium confusum Mitt.
  • Macromitrium consanguineum Cardot
  • Macromitrium dawsoniomitrium Müll.Hal.
  • Macromitrium dregei Hornsch.
  • Macromitrium eucalyptorum Müll.Hal. & Hampe
  • Macromitrium eucalyptorum var. recurvulum (Müll.Hal.) Sainsbury
  • Macromitrium geheebii Müll.Hal.
  • Macromitrium ghiesbreghtii Besch.
  • Macromitrium ghiesbreghtii var. brevifolium Besch.
  • Macromitrium hyalinum Broth.
  • Macromitrium intricatum Müll.Hal.
  • Macromitrium lampromitrium Müll.Hal.
  • Macromitrium leiboldtii Hampe
  • Macromitrium mexicanum Mitt.

and 18 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol MASU5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.