Metzgeria conjugataLindb.

WFO wfo-0001196557 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Metzgeria conjugata, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205159243
Metzgeria conjugata, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. b Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198905827
Metzgeria conjugata, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197331285
Metzgeria conjugata, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194835085
Metzgeria conjugata, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. e Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191440029
Metzgeria conjugata, photographed by Randal
fig. f Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190739952
Metzgeria conjugata, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. g Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168312385
Metzgeria conjugata, photographed by Randal
fig. h Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152359409

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Where it actually grows measured, from 429 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -10.1 °C -0.3 °C 3.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.7 °C 21.4 °C 26.1 °C
Annual rainfall 896 mm 1,935 mm 4,001 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 108 mm 239 mm 451 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 429 research-grade observations of Metzgeria conjugata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 21 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.

  • Aneura conjugata (Lindb.) Neger
  • Echinogyna furcata var. elongata (Hook.) Dumort.
  • Echinomitrion furcatum var. epigaeum Huebener
  • Jungermannia furcata var. elongata Hook.
  • Jungermannia furcata var. maxima Weber
  • Metzgeria conjugata f. conjugata
  • Metzgeria conjugata f. subpinnata Jørg.
  • Metzgeria conjugata f. subprolifera Jørg.
  • Metzgeria conjugata subsp. conjugata
  • Metzgeria conjugata var. alipila Kaal.
  • Metzgeria conjugata var. conjugata
  • Metzgeria conjugata var. elongata (Hook.) Heeg
  • Metzgeria conjugata var. macvicarii Kaal.
  • Metzgeria conjugata var. opuntia (Nees) Heeg
  • Metzgeria conjugata var. subpinnata (Jørg.) Jørg.
  • Metzgeria furcata f. opuntia Nees
  • Metzgeria furcata subsp. conjugata (Lindb.) Boulay
  • Metzgeria furcata var. campylotricha Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees
  • Metzgeria furcata var. conjugata (Lindb.) Bernet
  • Metzgeria furcata var. elongata (Hook.) Cogn.
  • Metzgeria minor var. cyanogutta Kuwah.

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.