Racomitrium pruinosum(Wilson) Müll.Hal.

WFO wfo-0001172166 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Racomitrium pruinosum, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. a Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / 2018-02-17 / obs. 13803464
Racomitrium pruinosum, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. b Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 3517280
Racomitrium pruinosum, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. c Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2484393
Racomitrium pruinosum, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. d Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 1982693
Racomitrium pruinosum, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. e Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11474084
Racomitrium pruinosum, photographed by John Steel
fig. f John Steel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29136644
Racomitrium pruinosum, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. g Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 3517281
Racomitrium pruinosum, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. h Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2484394

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 5 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.

  • Grimmia lanuginosa var. pruinosa (Wilson) Mitt.
  • Racomitrium austrocanescens Dusén
  • Racomitrium hypnoides var. pruinosum (Wilson) Broth.
  • Racomitrium lanuginosum var. pruinosum Wilson
  • Racomitrium lanuginosum var. sandvicense Reichardt

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.