Roellobryon roellii(Broth.) Ochyra

Roell's moss

WFO wfo-0001042468 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Roellobryon roellii, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-07 / obs. 204287997
Roellobryon roellii, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204285340
Roellobryon roellii, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200957998
Roellobryon roellii, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200721353
Roellobryon roellii, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. e Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202004047
Roellobryon roellii, photographed by Randal
fig. f Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157978228
Roellobryon roellii, photographed by Randal
fig. g Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157858110
Roellobryon roellii, photographed by Randal
fig. h Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204288017

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 11 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.

  • Bryum lucidum E.Britton
  • Bryum sandbergii Holz.
  • Bryum simplex Kindb.
  • Mnium lucidum Broth.
  • Mnium roellii Broth.
  • Mnium simplex Kindb.
  • Rhodobryum simplex (Kindb.) Paris
  • Roellia lucida (Broth.) Kindb.
  • Roellia roellii (Broth.) A.L.Andrews ex H.A.Crum
  • Roellia sandbergii (Holz.) Paris
  • Roellia simplex Kindb.

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 RORO5. 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.