Pelekium versicolor(Hornsch. ex Müll.Hal.) Touw

WFO wfo-0001207154 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Pelekium versicolor, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. a Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-02-05 / obs. 112445835
Pelekium versicolor, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. b Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 111709758
Pelekium versicolor, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. c Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 112445840
Pelekium versicolor, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 112445826
Pelekium versicolor, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. e Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 111709764
Pelekium versicolor, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. f Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 111709768
Pelekium versicolor, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. g Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 112445837
Pelekium versicolor, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. h Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 111709775

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 27 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.

  • Cyrto-hypnum rubiginosum (Besch.) W.R.Buck & H.A.Crum
  • Cyrto-hypnum sparsifolium (Mitt.) W.R.Buck & H.A.Crum
  • Cyrto-hypnum tamariscellum (Müll.Hal.) W.R.Buck & H.A.Crum
  • Cyrto-hypnum venustulum (Besch.) W.R.Buck & H.A.Crum
  • Cyrto-hypnum versicolor (Hornsch. ex Müll.Hal.) W.R.Buck & H.A.Crum
  • Hypnum djuriense Müll.Hal.
  • Hypnum tamariscellum Müll.Hal.
  • Hypnum versicolor Hornsch. ex Müll.Hal.
  • Leskea sparsifolia Mitt.
  • Leskea tamariscella (Müll.Hal.) Mitt.
  • Thuidium arachnoideum Sakurai
  • Thuidium bipinnatulum Mitt.
  • Thuidium borbonicum Besch.
  • Thuidium borbonicum f. brevisetum Thér.
  • Thuidium contortulum var. mussooriense Vohra
  • Thuidium crenulatum Mitt.
  • Thuidium djuriense (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger
  • Thuidium fauriei Paris
  • Thuidium micropteris Besch.
  • Thuidium nanophyllum Müll.Hal.
  • Thuidium rubiginosum Besch.
  • Thuidium sparsifolium (Mitt.) A.Jaeger
  • Thuidium subpellucens Dixon
  • Thuidium tamariscellum (Müll.Hal.) Bosch & Sande Lac.

and 3 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.