Pottiopsis caespitosa(Bruch ex Brid.) Blockeel & A.J.E.Sm.

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

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.

Also published as 36 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.

• Anacalypta caespitosa (Bruch ex Brid.) Nees & Hornsch.
• Dermatodon caespitosus (Bruch ex Brid.) Huebener
• Desmatodon caespitosus (Bruch ex Brid.) De Not.
• Didymodon philibertii (Schimp.) Kindb. ex Paris
• Didymodon pulchellus De Not.
• Didymodon triumphans (De Not. ex Schimp.) Kindb.
• Didymodon triumphans subsp. monspeliensis (Schimp.) Kindb.
• Didymodon triumphans subsp. pallidisetus (H.Müll.) Kindb.
• Didymodon triumphans subsp. philibertii (Schimp.) Kindb.
• Hymenostomum tyrrhenum (M.Fleisch.) Paris
• Mollia monspeliensis (Schimp.) Braithw.
• Mollia pallidiseta (H.Müll.) Braithw.
• Mollia philibertii (Schimp.) Braithw.
• Mollia triumphans (De Not. ex Schimp.) Braithw.
• Pottia caespitosa (Bruch ex Brid.) Müll.Hal.
• Trichostomum caespitosum (Bruch ex Brid.) Jur.
• Trichostomum caespitosum var. abbreviatum Jur.
• Trichostomum caespitosum var. mucronatum Pilous
• Trichostomum monspeliense Schimp.
• Trichostomum pallidisetum H.Müll.
• Trichostomum pallidisetum var. monspeliense (Schimp.) Casares-Gil
• Trichostomum pallidisetum var. philibertii (Schimp.) Casares-Gil
• Trichostomum philibertii Schimp.
• Trichostomum triumphans De Not. ex Schimp.

and 12 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.