Phlegmariurus linifolius(L.) B.Øllg.

WFO wfo-0001039398 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Phlegmariurus linifolius, photographed by Line Juul Nielsen
fig. a Line Juul Nielsen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-07 / obs. 171679058
Phlegmariurus linifolius, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. b Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75594174
Phlegmariurus linifolius, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61507686
Phlegmariurus linifolius, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. d Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61507708

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 16.6 °C 20.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.6 °C 26.1 °C 28.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,602 mm 2,933 mm 3,937 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 167 mm 293 mm 768 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. 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 Phlegmariurus linifolius 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 20 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 jenmanii (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Holub
  • Huperzia linifolia (L.) Rothm.
  • Huperzia linifolia var. jenmanii (F.E.Lloyd & F.E.Lloyd) B.Øllg. & P.G.Windisch
  • Huperzia linifolia var. planifolia B.Øllg.
  • Huperzia linifolia var. tenuifolia (Nessel) B.Øllg.
  • Lycopodium jenmanii Underw. & F.E.Lloyd
  • Lycopodium linifolium L.
  • Lycopodium linifolium var. attenuatum Jenman ex Nessel
  • Lycopodium linifolium var. flexuosum S.Sm ex Nessel
  • Lycopodium linifolium var. gracile L'Herm.
  • Lycopodium linifolium var. laxum Fée
  • Lycopodium linifolium var. quitense Christ ex Nessel
  • Plananthus linifolius (L.) P.Beauv.
  • Urostachys jenmanii (Underw. & F.E.Lloyd) Herter ex Nessel
  • Urostachys linifolia (L.) Herter
  • Urostachys linifolius var. gracilis (L'Herm.) Herter ex Nessel
  • Urostachys linifolius var. laxus (Fée) Herter ex Nessel
  • Urostachys linifolius var. mexicanus (W.Schaffn.) Herter ex Nessel
  • Urostachys linifolius var. minor Herter
  • Urostachys linifolius var. tenuifolius (Schomburgk) 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.

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.