Scorpidium revolvens(Sw.) Rubers

limprichtia moss

WFO wfo-0001195764 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 revolvens, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2021-04-16 / obs. 121243335
Scorpidium revolvens, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 121242708
Scorpidium revolvens, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 121243355

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03075761
Filed as
Scorpidium revolvens (Sw.) Rubers
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
B. H. Allen 2004-01-22
Origin
CL
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 39 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -28.3 °C -4.7 °C 2.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 13.9 °C 16.9 °C 24.1 °C
Annual rainfall 695 mm 1,681 mm 3,174 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 71 mm 240 mm 456 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 39 research-grade observations of Scorpidium revolvens 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 25 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 f. brunneum (Sanio) Arnell
  • Amblystegium intermedium f. fuscum (Sanio) Arnell
  • Amblystegium intermedium var. revolvens (Sw.) Venturi & Bott.
  • Amblystegium revolvens (Sw.) De Not.
  • Drepanocladus intermedius var. islandicus Meyl.
  • Drepanocladus lycopodioides var. miquelonensis (Renauld & Cardot) Mönk.
  • Drepanocladus revolvens (Sw.) Warnst.
  • Drepanocladus revolvens f. gracilescens Mönk.
  • Drepanocladus revolvens var. miquelonensis (Renauld & Cardot) Grout
  • Harpidium revolvens (Sw.) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Hypnum aduncum var. ambiguum Schrad. ex Rabenh.
  • Hypnum aduncum var. revolvens (Sw.) Blandow
  • Hypnum intermedium f. brunneum Sanio
  • Hypnum intermedium unranked fuscum Sanio
  • Hypnum intermedium var. revolvens (Sw.) Sanio
  • Hypnum lycopodioides var. miquelonense Renauld ex Paris
  • Hypnum revolvens Sw.
  • Hypnum revolvens f. brunneum (Sanio) Broeck
  • Hypnum revolvens var. brunneum (Sanio) Broeck ex Wijk, Margad. & Florsch.
  • Hypnum revolvens var. subauriculatum Renauld
  • Hypnum scorpioides var. miquelonense Renauld & Cardot
  • Hypnum xerampelinum Vill. ex Brid.
  • Limprichtia revolvens (Sw.) Loeske
  • Scorpidium scorpioides var. miquelonense (Renauld & Cardot) Grout

and 1 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 LIRE13. 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.