Sphagnum falcatulumBesch.

WFO wfo-0001185785 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Sphagnum falcatulum, photographed by Pablo
fig. a Pablo, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-08 / obs. 186939523
Sphagnum falcatulum, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. b Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12024489
Sphagnum falcatulum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31066735
Sphagnum falcatulum, photographed by Jacqui Geux
fig. d Jacqui Geux, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56365839
Sphagnum falcatulum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31066736
Sphagnum falcatulum, photographed by Jacqui Geux
fig. f Jacqui Geux, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56365849
Sphagnum falcatulum, photographed by Jacqui Geux
fig. g Jacqui Geux, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56365853
Sphagnum falcatulum, photographed by Pablo
fig. h Pablo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186939568

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 35 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.

  • Drepanocladus fontinaliopsis var. flaccidus Allison
  • Sphagnum brotherusii Warnst.
  • Sphagnum brotherusii var. plumulosum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum cuspidatum var. falcatulum (Besch.) Paris
  • Sphagnum cuspidatum var. microporum (Warnst.) Paris
  • Sphagnum dissimile Roiv.
  • Sphagnum drepanocladum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum drepanocladum var. latilimbatum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum dusenioides Roiv.
  • Sphagnum ehyalinum A.J.Shaw & Goffinet
  • Sphagnum elegans Müll.Hal.
  • Sphagnum irritans Warnst.
  • Sphagnum kirkii Warnst.
  • Sphagnum lanceolatum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum lancifolium Müll.Hal. & Warnst.
  • Sphagnum linguifolium Warnst.
  • Sphagnum nanoporosum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum nanoporosum var. skottsbergii Cardot
  • Sphagnum patagoniense Warnst.
  • Sphagnum patagoniense var. submersum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum personatum Roiv.
  • Sphagnum rodwayi Warnst.
  • Sphagnum scortechinii Müll.Hal.
  • Sphagnum serratifolium Warnst.

and 11 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.

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.