Marsupella sphacelata(Giesecke ex Lindenb.) Dumort.

WFO wfo-0001196547 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Marsupella sphacelata, photographed by Roger Rittmaster
fig. a Roger Rittmaster, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-22 / obs. 106173910
Marsupella sphacelata, photographed by Roger Rittmaster
fig. b Roger Rittmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106173922
Marsupella sphacelata, photographed by Roger Rittmaster
fig. c Roger Rittmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106173931
Marsupella sphacelata, photographed by Roger Rittmaster
fig. d Roger Rittmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106173924

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04782536
Filed as
Marsupella sphacelata (Giesecke ex Lindenb.) Dumort.
Det. by
N. A. Konstantinova 1992-01-01
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Also published as 49 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.

  • Hygrobiella japonica Steph.
  • Jungermannia emarginata var. saccata (Nees) Moug., Nestl. & Schimp.
  • Jungermannia sphacelata Giesecke ex Lindenb.
  • Marsupella aequiloba Steph.
  • Marsupella emarginata var. saccata (Nees) Pearson
  • Marsupella erythrorhiza (Limpr.) Schiffn.
  • Marsupella erythrorhiza f. brevicaulis Schiffn.
  • Marsupella erythrorhiza f. gracilescens Schiffn.
  • Marsupella erythrorhiza f. nana Schiffn.
  • Marsupella erythrorhiza var. brevicaulis (Schiffn.) Schiffn.
  • Marsupella joergensenii Schiffn.
  • Marsupella joergensenii f. densiretis Kaal.
  • Marsupella joergensenii f. gracilior Kaal.
  • Marsupella joergensenii f. nivalis Jørg.
  • Marsupella media (Gottsche) Schiffn.
  • Marsupella sphacelata f. bifida R.M.Schust.
  • Marsupella sphacelata f. joergensenii (Schiffn.) R.M.Schust.
  • Marsupella sphacelata f. media (Gottsche) R.M.Schust.
  • Marsupella sphacelata f. minor Bernet
  • Marsupella sphacelata f. robustior Bernet
  • Marsupella sphacelata f. sphacelata
  • Marsupella sphacelata f. sullivantii (De Not.) Müll.Frib.
  • Marsupella sphacelata var. arduennensis Boulay
  • Marsupella sphacelata var. erythrorhiza (Limpr.) Loitl.

and 25 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.

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.