Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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 84 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -11.0 °C | -5.4 °C | -1.7 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 19.9 °C | 23.4 °C | 31.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 588 mm | 951 mm | 1,417 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 94 mm | 136 mm | 287 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 84 research-grade observations of Plagiothecium cavifolium 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 47 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.
- Hypnum cavifolium Brid.
- Hypnum denticulatum var. turgidum T.Jensen
- Hypnum sylvaticum var. orthocladium (Schimp.) Husn.
- Plagiothecium acicularipungens Müll.Hal. & Kindb.
- Plagiothecium attenuatirameum Kindb.
- Plagiothecium boscii subsp. acicularipungens (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Kindb.
- Plagiothecium cavifolium var. orthocladium (Schimp.) Z.Iwats.
- Plagiothecium denticulatum f. flagellaceum (Warnst.) Grout
- Plagiothecium denticulatum subsp. roeseanum (Schimp.) Grout
- Plagiothecium denticulatum var. myurum Schimp.
- Plagiothecium denticulatum var. orthocladium (Schimp.) Hérib.
- Plagiothecium denticulatum var. roeseanum (Schimp.) Hérib.
- Plagiothecium laetum subsp. attenuatirameum (Kindb.) Kindb.
- Plagiothecium orthocladium Schimp.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum Schimp.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum f. angustirete (Warnst.) Jedl.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum f. basalticum (Podp.) Podp.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum f. densum (Warnst.) Jedl.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum f. filiforme (Broeck) Jedl.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum f. flagellaceum (Warnst.) Mönk.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum f. propaguliferum (R.Ruthe) Jaap
- Plagiothecium roeseanum f. strenuum Jedl.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum subf. propaguliferum Jedl.
- Plagiothecium roeseanum subf. propaguliferum Jedl.
and 23 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.