Sciuro-hypnum populeum(Hedw.) Ignatov & Huttunen

brachythecium moss

WFO wfo-0001211451 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sciuro-hypnum populeum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 194281079
Sciuro-hypnum populeum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194829248
Sciuro-hypnum populeum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194827320
Sciuro-hypnum populeum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126660759
Sciuro-hypnum populeum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125962239
Sciuro-hypnum populeum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125988250
Sciuro-hypnum populeum, photographed by Tero Linjama
fig. g Tero Linjama, CC0 1.0 / obs. 115919956
Sciuro-hypnum populeum, photographed by Susan Marley
fig. h Susan Marley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 96472541

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01243893
Filed as
Hypnum concinnum Wilson
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
W. T. Alexander
Origin
CN
The sheet
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Also published as 86 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.

  • Brachythecium amoenum Milde
  • Brachythecium cochlearifolium Takaki
  • Brachythecium nanopes Müll.Hal. & Kindb.
  • Brachythecium plumosum var. populeum (Hedw.) Rau & Herv.
  • Brachythecium populeum (Hedw.) Schimp.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. amoenum (Milde) Mönk.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. angustifolium (Kindb.) Jäggli
  • Brachythecium populeum f. angustifrons Podp.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. attenuatum (Schimp.) Jäggli
  • Brachythecium populeum f. cataractarum (Velen.) Podp.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. crispatulum Latzel
  • Brachythecium populeum f. excurrens Mönk.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. falciforme (Podp.) Podp.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. filiforme (Loeske) Podp.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. jaapianum (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. latifolium (Röll) Podp.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. longisetum (Schimp.) Mönk.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. majus (Schimp.) Mönk.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. robustum Broth. ex Ihsiba
  • Brachythecium populeum f. rufescens (Schimp.) Mönk.
  • Brachythecium populeum f. subfalcatum (Schimp.) Mönk.
  • Brachythecium populeum subsp. angustifolium Kindb.
  • Brachythecium populeum subsp. nanopes (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Kindb.
  • Brachythecium populeum var. amoenum (Milde) Limpr.

and 62 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol BRPO4. 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.