Phlegmariurus dacrydioides(Baker) A.R.Field & Bostock

WFO wfo-0001334857 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / 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.

Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, photographed by katuchka
fig. a katuchka, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-01 / obs. 88401598
Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, photographed by katuchka
fig. b katuchka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88401616
Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. c Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130480332
Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. d Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130480368
Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. e Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130480409
Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. f Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130480460
Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. g Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130480501
Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. h Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130480536

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2858453
Filed as
Phlegmariurus dacrydioides (Baker) A.R.Field & Bostock
Det. by
Field, A. R.
Collected
R. E. Pichi-Sermolli 1966-08-13
Origin
ET
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. 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 herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Phlegmariurus dacrydioides is native: Burundi, Cape Provinces, Comoros, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe BurundiCape ProvincesDR CongoEthiopiaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZimbabwe Comoros
Native distribution of Phlegmariurus dacrydioides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Burundi BUR AFRICA
Cape Provinces CPP
Comoros COM
DR Congo ZAI
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 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.

  • Huperzia dacrydioides (Baker) Pic.Serm.
  • Lycopodium dacrydioides Baker
  • Urostachys dacrydioides (Baker) Herter ex Nessel
  • Urostachys dacrydioides var. minor Herter ex Nessel

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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.