Mnium lycopodioidesSchwägr.

ambiguous calcareous moss

WFO wfo-0001187586 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Mnium lycopodioides, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 200643942
Mnium lycopodioides, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200643967
Mnium lycopodioides, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200823797
Mnium lycopodioides, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200823792
Mnium lycopodioides, photographed by Randal
fig. e Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200823800

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.

  • Astrophyllum inclinatum Lindb.
  • Astrophyllum lycopodioides (Schwägr.) Lindb.
  • Astrophyllum orthorhynchum var. inclinatum (Lindb.) Kindb.
  • Atrichum speciosum (Horik.) Wijk & Margad.
  • Bryum lycopodioides (Schwägr.) Brid.
  • Catharinea speciosa Horik.
  • Mnium albolimbatum Müll.Hal.
  • Mnium ambiguum H.Müll.
  • Mnium arisanense Sakurai
  • Mnium filicaule Müll.Hal.
  • Mnium gracilentum Stirt.
  • Mnium inclinatum Lindb.
  • Mnium laevinerve Cardot
  • Mnium laevinerve var. bellirete Sakurai
  • Mnium laevinerve var. rubrirete Sakurai
  • Mnium lindbergii Smirnova
  • Mnium longimucronatum X.J.Li & M.Zang
  • Mnium longispinum X.J.Li & M.Zang
  • Mnium lycopodioides subsp. inclinatum (Lindb.) Wijk & Margad.
  • Mnium lycopodioides var. nivale (Pfeff.) Wijk & Margad.
  • Mnium macounii Kindb.
  • Mnium marginatum var. dioicum (H.Müll.) Crundw.
  • Mnium nivale J.J. Amann
  • Mnium orthorhynchum subsp. inclinatum (Lindb.) Podp.

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 MNAM. 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.