Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum(Hedw.) J.R.Spence & H.P.Ramsay

common green bryum moss

WFO wfo-0001214357 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-01 / obs. 202566723

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04273672
Filed as
Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) J.R.Spence & H.P.Ramsay
Det. by
D. R. Toren 2019-11-01
Collected
J. R. Shevock 2010-10-26
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 625 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -12.7 °C -2.7 °C 3.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.2 °C 21.8 °C 30.8 °C
Annual rainfall 588 mm 1,218 mm 2,621 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 78 mm 198 mm 358 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 625 research-grade observations of Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 351 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.

  • Bryum aciculinum Kindb.
  • Bryum algens Cardot
  • Bryum alpiniforme Kindb.
  • Bryum alpinum subsp. haematocarpum (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Podp.
  • Bryum amoenum (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Bryum amoenum var. cavifolium Podp.
  • Bryum aulacomnioides Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum aulacomnioides var. limbatum Sim
  • Bryum austroaffine Broth.
  • Bryum austrocaespiticium Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum austropolare Cardot
  • Bryum austroventricosum Renauld
  • Bryum bimoideum De Not.
  • Bryum bimum subsp. amoenum (Warnst.) J.J.Amann
  • Bryum bimum subsp. pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) Dixon
  • Bryum bimum var. amoenum Warnst.
  • Bryum bimum var. compactum (Bruch & Schimp.) Dixon
  • Bryum brachycarpum E.B.Bartram
  • Bryum brachychaete Cardot & Broth.
  • Bryum brachymeniaceum Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum bujukuense P.de la Varde
  • Bryum bujukuense f. aristatum P.de la Varde
  • Bryum capillare var. norvegicum (Kaurin & Arnell) I.Hagen
  • Bryum crassirameum Renauld & Cardot

and 327 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.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol BRPS70. public domain. 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.