Rhynchostegium aquaticumSpruce

WFO wfo-0001179232 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Rhynchostegium aquaticum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. a Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-23 / obs. 170977356
Rhynchostegium aquaticum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. b Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72407032
Rhynchostegium aquaticum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. c Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170977385
Rhynchostegium aquaticum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. d Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170977406

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 9 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.

  • Hygrohypnum nicholsii Grout
  • Hypnum aquaticum Hampe
  • Oxyrrhynchium aquaticum (Spruce) Broth.
  • Oxyrrhynchium limnobiella (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
  • Platyhypnidium aquaticum (Spruce) M.Fleisch.
  • Platyhypnidium intermedium Herzog
  • Rhynchostegium limnobiella Müll.Hal.
  • Torrentaria aquatica (Spruce) Ochyra
  • Torrentaria intermedia (Herzog) Ochyra

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.