Ptychomitrium nigrescens(Kunze) Wijk & Margad.

WFO wfo-0001171795 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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 nigrescens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-05 / obs. 176154817
Ptychomitrium nigrescens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176150123
Ptychomitrium nigrescens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176154759
Ptychomitrium nigrescens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176150031
Ptychomitrium nigrescens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176155114
Ptychomitrium nigrescens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176154994

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 11 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 nigricans Kindb.
  • Brachysteleum pulvinare (Mitt.) Solms
  • Glyphomitrium nigricans Mitt.
  • Glyphomitrium nigricans var. pulvinare (Mitt.) Cardot
  • Glyphomitrium pulvinare Mitt.
  • Macromitrium nigrescens Kunze
  • Macromitrium tenerum Kunze
  • Ptychomitrium nigricans Schimp.
  • Ptychomitrium nigricans var. albidens Zodda
  • Ptychomitrium pulvinare (Mitt.) A.Jaeger
  • Ptychomitrium subcrispatum var. obscurum Bizot

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.