Polytrichum subpilosumP.Beauv.

WFO wfo-0001170317 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Polytrichum subpilosum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 204665169
Polytrichum subpilosum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200966488
Polytrichum subpilosum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183023914
Polytrichum subpilosum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165786508
Polytrichum subpilosum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165793090
Polytrichum subpilosum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200966399
Polytrichum subpilosum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183023966
Polytrichum subpilosum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204665240

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.

Also published as 27 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.

  • Pogonatum potieri Demaret & V.Leroy bis
  • Polytrichum afrorobustum Besch. ex Renauld
  • Polytrichum appressum Brid.
  • Polytrichum armatum Broth.
  • Polytrichum calopogon Besch.
  • Polytrichum calopogon f. majus Besch.
  • Polytrichum commersonianum Brid.
  • Polytrichum commune var. trichodes (Müll.Hal.) Dixon
  • Polytrichum comorense Müll.Hal.
  • Polytrichum hoehnelii Müll.Hal.
  • Polytrichum leioneuron Besch.
  • Polytrichum longissimum Müll.Hal. ex Renauld
  • Polytrichum mahense Besch.
  • Polytrichum mauritianum Müll.Hal. ex Besch.
  • Polytrichum parvisetum Müll.Hal. ex Renauld
  • Polytrichum pervillei Besch.
  • Polytrichum pervillei var. leptocaule Besch.
  • Polytrichum preussii Broth.
  • Polytrichum pungens Müll.Hal.
  • Polytrichum purpurans Besch.
  • Polytrichum robustum Müll.Hal. ex Cardot
  • Polytrichum subappressum Besch.
  • Polytrichum subformosum Besch.
  • Polytrichum subformosum f. calopogon (Besch.) Thér.

and 3 more.

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.