Scorpidium cossonii(Schimp.) Hedenäs

Cosson's limprichtia moss

WFO wfo-0001195765 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Scorpidium cossonii, photographed by Bianca S.
fig. a Bianca S., CC BY 4.0 / 2019-10-21 / obs. 54631718
Scorpidium cossonii, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. b Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179187847
Scorpidium cossonii, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. c Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188145144
Scorpidium cossonii, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. d Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187884310
Scorpidium cossonii, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. e Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165358458
Scorpidium cossonii, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. f Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179187831
Scorpidium cossonii, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. g Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178595657
Scorpidium cossonii, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. h Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165358485

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.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
2165473
Filed as
Scorpidium cossonii (Schimp.) Hedenäs
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
M. A. Lewis 1979-06-06
Origin
BO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Where it actually grows measured, from 117 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.9 °C -5.1 °C 2.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.6 °C 21.2 °C 23.2 °C
Annual rainfall 601 mm 1,033 mm 2,265 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 96 mm 190 mm 385 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 117 research-grade observations of Scorpidium cossonii that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 52 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.

  • Amblystegium intermedium Lindb.
  • Amblystegium intermedium f. arcticum (Sanio) Arnell
  • Amblystegium intermedium var. cossonii (Schimp.) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Amblystegium revolvens var. cossonii (Schimp.) Arnell & C.E.O.Jensen
  • Amblystegium revolvens var. intermedium (Lindb.) Arnell & C.E.O.Jensen
  • Drepanocladus cossonii (Schimp.) Loeske
  • Drepanocladus exannulatus var. polaris Bryhn
  • Drepanocladus intermedius (Lindb.) Warnst.
  • Drepanocladus intermedius f. exalaris Herzog
  • Drepanocladus intermedius var. cossonii (Schimp.) Warnst.
  • Drepanocladus intermedius var. fallax Loeske
  • Drepanocladus intermedius var. gracilis G.Roth
  • Drepanocladus intermedius var. purpurascens Osterwald ex Warnst.
  • Drepanocladus intermedius var. robustus G.Roth & Bock
  • Drepanocladus intermedius var. rupicola H.Philib.
  • Drepanocladus intermedius var. tenellus G.Roth & Bock
  • Drepanocladus revolvens f. cossonii (Schimp.) Mönk.
  • Drepanocladus revolvens subsp. cossonii (Schimp.) Podp.
  • Drepanocladus revolvens subsp. intermedius (Lindb.) Grout
  • Drepanocladus revolvens var. intermedius (Lindb.) Grout
  • Drepanocladus vernicosus var. molle Röll
  • Harpidium intermedium (Lindb.) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Hypnum aduncum var. tenue Turner
  • Hypnum cossonii Schimp.

and 28 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 LICO16. 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.