Ruficaulis rufescens(Dicks.) Bonfim Santos & Fedosov

dicranella moss

WFO wfo-1000051874 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Ruficaulis rufescens, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2021-09-24 / obs. 159493316
Ruficaulis rufescens, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146475307
Ruficaulis rufescens, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146475378
Ruficaulis rufescens, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159493300
Ruficaulis rufescens, photographed by Randal
fig. e Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146475357
Ruficaulis rufescens, photographed by Randal
fig. f Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159493397
Ruficaulis rufescens, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. g Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164275556
Ruficaulis rufescens, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. h Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164275539

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 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.

  • Anisothecium rufescens (Dicks.) Lindb.
  • Anisothecium rufescens f. elongatum (Thér.) Podp.
  • Aongstroemia geniculata Sakurai
  • Aongstroemia rufescens (Dicks.) Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum rufescens Dicks.
  • Dicranella hutchinsonii Krajina
  • Dicranella rufescens (Dicks.) Schimp.
  • Dicranella rufescens f. elongata Thér.
  • Dicranodon varium var. rufescens (Dicks.) Béhéré
  • Dicranum crispum var. rufescens (Dicks.) Hampe
  • Dicranum rufescens (Dicks.) Turner
  • Dicranum rufescens var. giganteum De Not.
  • Dicranum varium var. rufescens (Dicks.) Röhl.

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 DIRU70. 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.