Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.
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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 31 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -9.0 °C | -5.8 °C | 13.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 18.0 °C | 26.7 °C | 29.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 500 mm | 1,003 mm | 1,374 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 15 mm | 183 mm | 301 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 31 research-grade observations of Phaeoceros laevis 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 26 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.
- Anthoceros beltranii Casares-Gil
- Anthoceros butleri Steph.
- Anthoceros dichotomus var. gussonei Zodda
- Anthoceros elmeri Steph.
- Anthoceros faurieanus Steph.
- Anthoceros indicus Steph.
- Anthoceros laevis L.
- Anthoceros laevis f. aquaticus (Walt.Watson) Macvicar
- Anthoceros laevis f. laevis
- Anthoceros laevis subsp. laevis
- Anthoceros laevis var. aquaticus Walt.Watson
- Anthoceros laevis var. laevis
- Anthoceros longii Steph.
- Anthoceros major P.Micheli ex Schmidel
- Anthoceros major Sm.
- Anthoceros miyakeanus Schiffn.
- Anthoceros polymorphus var. laevis (L.) Hampe
- Anthoceros punctatus var. laevis (L.) Hook. ex Lindenb.
- Anthoceros punctatus var. major Hook. & Wilson
- Anthoceros radicellosus Steph.
- Carpoceros laevis (L.) Dumort.
- Phaeoceros butleri (Steph.) Udar & D.K.Singh
- Phaeoceros dixitii (Sane) Prosk.
- Phaeoceros laevis subsp. laevis
and 2 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.