Ptychomitrium gardneriLesq.

Gardner's ptychomitrium moss

WFO wfo-0001171766 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

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.

Ptychomitrium gardneri, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. a Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-09-10 / obs. 4863953
Ptychomitrium gardneri, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 115242951
Ptychomitrium gardneri, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. c Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4863963
Ptychomitrium gardneri, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 115267799
Ptychomitrium gardneri, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. e Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4863980
Ptychomitrium gardneri, photographed by Randal
fig. f Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 115267794
Ptychomitrium gardneri, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. g Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4863993
Ptychomitrium gardneri, photographed by Randal
fig. h Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 115242936

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 14 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.

  • Brachysteleum gardneri (Lesq.) Kindb.
  • Brachysteleum polyphylloides Müll.Hal.
  • Glyphomitrium gardneri (Lesq.) Broth.
  • Glyphomitrium polyphylloides (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
  • Leptodontium sinense (Müll.Hal.) Paris
  • Ptychomitrium kiusiuense Sakurai
  • Ptychomitrium longisetum Reimers & Sakurai
  • Ptychomitrium longisetum var. angustifolium Nog.
  • Ptychomitrium polyphylloides (Müll.Hal.) Paris
  • Ptychomitrium polyphylloides var. angustifolium (Nog.) Nog. & Z.Iwats.
  • Ptychomitrium polyphylloides var. polyphylloides
  • Ptychomitrium potaninii Broth.
  • Ptychomitrium viride Sakurai
  • Trichostomum sinense Müll.Hal.

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. 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.