Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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 48 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -5.1 °C | -0.6 °C | 4.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 13.2 °C | 20.0 °C | 25.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 711 mm | 1,103 mm | 3,545 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 82 mm | 211 mm | 784 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 48 research-grade observations of Philonotis scabrifolia 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 32 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.
- Anomodon perarmatus R.S.Williams
- Bartramia appressa Hook.f. & Wilson
- Bartramia catenulata Hampe
- Bartramia exigua Sull.
- Bartramia hymenodon Müll.Hal.
- Bartramia perigonialis (Besch.) Müll.Hal.
- Bartramia pinnata Hampe
- Bartramia pinnulata Müll.Hal.
- Bartramia pusilla Sull.
- Bartramia remotifolia Hook.f. & Wilson
- Bartramia scabrifolia (Hook.f. & Wilson) Müll.Hal.
- Bartramia subexigua Müll.Hal.
- Bartramia ventanae Müll.Hal.
- Bartramia willii Müll.Hal.
- Bartramidula exigua (Sull.) Paris
- Bartramidula subexigua (Müll.Hal.) Paris
- Breutelia pinnata (Hampe) A.Jaeger
- Glyphocarpus exigua (Sull.) A.Jaeger
- Hypnum scabrifolium Hook.f. & Wilson
- Philonotis appressa (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.
- Philonotis bescherellei Thér. ex Renauld
- Philonotis catenulata (Hampe) Paris
- Philonotis exigua (Sull.) Broth.
- Philonotis hymenodon (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger
and 8 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.
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.