Papillaria nitens(Hook.f. & Wilson) Sainsbury

WFO wfo-0001150513 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

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.

Papillaria nitens, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. a Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-21 / obs. 168590381

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 10 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.

  • Barbella nitens (Hook.f. & Wilson) Nog.
  • Meteorium dimorphum (Müll.Hal.) Mitt.
  • Meteorium fulvum Mitt.
  • Meteorium nitens Hook.f. & Wilson
  • Neckera dimorpha Müll.Hal.
  • Papillaria fulva (Mitt.) A.Jaeger
  • Papillaria nitidiuscula Broth.
  • Pilotrichella dimorpha (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger
  • Pilotrichella fulva (Mitt.) Hampe
  • Pilotrichella nitens (Hook.f. & Wilson) A.Jaeger

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.