Riccia huebenerianaLindenb.

Violet crystalwort

WFO wfo-0001204854 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

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.

Riccia huebeneriana, photographed by John Kees
fig. a John Kees, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-29 / obs. 174058827
Riccia huebeneriana, photographed by John Kees
fig. b John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174058862
Riccia huebeneriana, photographed by John Kees
fig. c John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174058789

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 19 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.

  • Riccia fluitans f. major H.Klinggr.
  • Riccia fluitans f. minor H.Klinggr.
  • Riccia fluitans var. purpurascens H.Klinggr.
  • Riccia fluitans var. sullivantii (Austin ex Peck) J.Wolf & E.Hall
  • Riccia huebeneri Lindb.
  • Riccia huebeneriana f. huebeneriana
  • Riccia huebeneriana f. platyphylla Kavina
  • Riccia huebeneriana f. purpurea Schiffn.
  • Riccia huebeneriana f. viridis Schiffn.
  • Riccia huebeneriana var. huebeneriana
  • Riccia huebeneriana var. pseudofrostii Schiffn.
  • Riccia klinggraeffii Gottsche
  • Riccia pseudofrostii (Schiffn.) Müll.Frib.
  • Riccia sullivantii Austin ex Peck
  • Ricciella fluitans f. purpurascens (H.Klinggr.) Warnst.
  • Ricciella huebeneriana (Lindenb.) Dumort.
  • Ricciella huebeneriana var. huebeneriana
  • Ricciella pseudofrostii (Schiffn.) Casares-Gil
  • Ricciella sullivantii (Austin ex Peck) A.Evans

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.