Nardia compressa(Hook.) Gray

WFO wfo-0001196570 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Nardia compressa, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. a Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-21 / obs. 137973187
Nardia compressa, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. b Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163077334
Nardia compressa, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. c Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137973262
Nardia compressa, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. d Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163077384
Nardia compressa, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. e Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137973209
Nardia compressa, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. f Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175133722
Nardia compressa, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. g Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175133727
Nardia compressa, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. h Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163077317

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04242651
Filed as
Nardia compressa (Hook.) Gray
Det. by
V. A. Bakalin
Collected
V. A. Bakalin 2015-09-16
Origin
RU
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. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. 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 sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Also published as 28 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.

  • Alicularia compressa (Hook.) Nees
  • Alicularia compressa var. compressa
  • Alicularia compressa var. gigantea Macvicar
  • Alicularia compressa var. rigida (Lindb.) Macvicar
  • Alicularia compressa var. rotundifolia Müll.Frib.
  • Alicularia pachyphylla De Not.
  • Jungermannia compressa Hook.
  • Jungermannia pachyphylla (De Not.) Bertol.
  • Mesophylla compressa (Hook.) Dumort.
  • Mesophylla compressa f. compressa
  • Mesophylla compressa f. pallida Boulay
  • Nardia compressa f. compressa
  • Nardia compressa f. gracilescens Kaal.
  • Nardia compressa f. obscura Schiffn.
  • Nardia compressa f. patens Kaal.
  • Nardia compressa f. subflagellata Kaal.
  • Nardia compressa f. submersa Kaal.
  • Nardia compressa f. virescens Schiffn.
  • Nardia compressa var. compressa
  • Nardia compressa var. gigantea (Macvicar) Müll.Frib.
  • Nardia compressa var. pachyphylla (De Not.) C.Massal.
  • Nardia compressa var. parvifolia Schiffn.
  • Nardia compressa var. purpurea Kaal.
  • Nardia compressa var. rigida Lindb.

and 4 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.