Rhynchostegium murale(Hedw.) Schimp.

WFO wfo-0001174693 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rhynchostegium murale, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 195028216
Rhynchostegium murale, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126926258
Rhynchostegium murale, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126883956
Rhynchostegium murale, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126660262
Rhynchostegium murale, photographed by George Greiff
fig. e George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108241864
Rhynchostegium murale, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92310672
Rhynchostegium murale, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. g Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178360452
Rhynchostegium murale, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. h Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172874164

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Where it actually grows measured, from 111 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -9.4 °C -4.3 °C 1.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.5 °C 22.1 °C 24.6 °C
Annual rainfall 599 mm 911 mm 1,953 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 99 mm 163 mm 363 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 111 research-grade observations of Rhynchostegium murale 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 50 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.

  • Eurhynchium murale (Hedw.) Milde
  • Eurhynchium murale var. complanatum (Schimp.) Milde
  • Eurhynchium murale var. julaceum (Schimp.) Milde
  • Eurhynchium murale var. subalpinum (Renauld) Kern
  • Eurhynchium stokesii var. pseudoconfertum (Warnst.) Limpr.
  • Hypnum abbreviatum Hedw.
  • Hypnum murale Hedw.
  • Hypnum murale var. abbreviatum (Hedw.) Brid.
  • Hypnum murale var. arcticum (I.Hagen) H.A.Möller
  • Hypnum murale var. complanatum (Schimp.) Braithw.
  • Hypnum murale var. elongatum Brid.
  • Hypnum murale var. hispanicum Brid.
  • Hypnum murale var. julaceum (Schimp.) Braithw.
  • Hypnum murale var. paradoxum Cardot
  • Hypnum murale var. spadiceum Brid.
  • Hypnum murale var. subcirrhosum Brid.
  • Pancovia muralis (Hedw.) J.Kickx f.
  • Rhynchostegium arcticum (I.Hagen) Ignatov & Huttunen
  • Rhynchostegium confertum f. elatius Molendo
  • Rhynchostegium murale f. aquaticum (J.J.Amann) J.J.Amann
  • Rhynchostegium murale f. carinthiacum Latzel
  • Rhynchostegium murale f. complanatum (Schimp.) Podp.
  • Rhynchostegium murale f. enervium Grom
  • Rhynchostegium murale f. julaceum (Schimp.) Podp.

and 26 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.

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.