Saelania glaucescens(Hedw.) Broth.

blue dew-mosssaelania moss

WFO wfo-0001174925 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Saelania glaucescens, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. a Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-13 / obs. 199234487
Saelania glaucescens, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. b Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76044209
Saelania glaucescens, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. c Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76044311
Saelania glaucescens, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. d Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199234378
Saelania glaucescens, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. e Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199234604
Saelania glaucescens, photographed by Zoltán Nagy
fig. f Zoltán Nagy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23575890

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 27 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.

  • Barbula trifaria (Hedw.) Mitt.
  • Bryum caesium Vill. ex P.Beauv.
  • Bryum glaucescens (Hedw.) Dicks.
  • Bryum trifarium (Hedw.) Dicks.
  • Cynodontium trifarium (Hedw.) Brid.
  • Cynontodium trifarium Hedw.
  • Diaphanophyllum glaucescens (Hedw.) Lindb.
  • Didymodon aeruginosus Hook.
  • Didymodon glaucescens (Hedw.) F.Weber & D.Mohr
  • Didymodon rigidulus var. trifarius (Hedw.) Hartm.
  • Didymodon trifarius (Hedw.) Röhl.
  • Ditrichum caesium (Vill. ex P.Beauv.) Lindb.
  • Ditrichum glaucescens (Hedw.) Hobk. & Bosw.
  • Ditrichum glaucescens var. brevipedunculatum (Müll.Hal.) Paris
  • Ditrichum pruinosum (Müll.Hal.) Paris
  • Ditrichum subglaucescens (Müll.Hal.) Paris
  • Leptotrichum glaucescens (Hedw.) Hampe
  • Leptotrichum pruinosum Müll.Hal.
  • Leptotrichum subglaucescens Müll.Hal.
  • Saelania caesia (Vill. ex P.Beauv.) Lindb.
  • Saelania glaucescens var. carinthiaca Latzel
  • Saelania pruinosa (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
  • Saelania subglaucescens (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
  • Swartzia trifaria (Hedw.) P.Beauv.

and 3 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.
  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.