Southbya tophacea(Spruce) Spruce

WFO wfo-0001207591 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Southbya tophacea, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. a Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-22 / obs. 173212179

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 12 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.

  • Aplozia alicularia (De Not.) Dumort.
  • Coleochila stillicidiorum (Raddi) Dumort.
  • Jungermannia alicularia De Not.
  • Jungermannia scalaris var. stillicidiorum Raddi
  • Jungermannia stillicidiorum (Raddi) De Not.
  • Jungermannia tophacea Spruce
  • Mesophylla stillicidiorum (Raddi) Boulay
  • Mylia stillicidiorum (Raddi) Trevis.
  • Southbya alicularia (De Not.) C.Massal.
  • Southbya stillicidiorum (Raddi) Lindb.
  • Southbya stillicidiorum f. luxurians Schiffn.
  • Southbya stillicidiorum var. major Müll.Frib.

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.

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.