Mniodendron colensoi(Hook.f. & Wilson) Besch.

WFO wfo-0001187399 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Mniodendron colensoi, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. a Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205989941
Mniodendron colensoi, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler
fig. b Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114366749
Mniodendron colensoi, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. c Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59885390
Mniodendron colensoi, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler
fig. d Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49240127
Mniodendron colensoi, photographed by Brett Sandford
fig. e Brett Sandford, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42781198
Mniodendron colensoi, photographed by Bruce Calvert
fig. f Bruce Calvert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32026143
Mniodendron colensoi, photographed by Bruce Calvert
fig. g Bruce Calvert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32026462
Mniodendron colensoi, photographed by Bruce Calvert
fig. h Bruce Calvert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29827570

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Where it actually grows measured, from 144 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.1 °C 8.9 °C 10.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.3 °C 20.9 °C 22.7 °C
Annual rainfall 1,273 mm 1,488 mm 3,163 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 245 mm 285 mm 605 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 144 research-grade observations of Mniodendron colensoi 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 2 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.

  • Hypnodendron colensoi (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.
  • Isothecium colensoi Hook.f. & Wilson

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.