Rectithecium piliferum(Sw.) Hedenäs & Huttunen

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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 13 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.

• Hypnum denticulatum var. piliferum (Sw.) Wahlenb.
• Hypnum orthocarpon Ångstr.
• Hypnum trichophorum Spruce
• Hypnum trichophorum var. brevipilum (Schimp.) Kindb.
• Isopterygium piliferum (Sw.) Loeske
• Leskea pilifera Sw.
• Neckera pilifera (Sw.) Spruce
• Plagiotheciella pilifera (Sw.) M.Fleisch.
• Plagiotheciella pilifera f. brevipila (Schimp.) Podp.
• Plagiothecium piliferum (Sw.) Schimp.
• Plagiothecium piliferum f. brevipilum (Schimp.) Mönk.
• Plagiothecium piliferum var. brevipilum Schimp.
• Plagiothecium trichophorum Venturi & Bott.

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 PLPI2. 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.