Splachnum sphaericumHedw.

pinkstink dung moss

WFO wfo-0001190516 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

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.

Splachnum sphaericum, photographed by Matt Muir
fig. a Matt Muir, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-10 / obs. 107560202
Splachnum sphaericum, photographed by Matt Muir
fig. b Matt Muir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107560215
Splachnum sphaericum, photographed by Matt Muir
fig. c Matt Muir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107560208
Splachnum sphaericum, photographed by Matt Muir
fig. d Matt Muir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107560213

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 19 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.

  • Splachnum ampullaceum var. bavaricum (Brid.) Brid.
  • Splachnum bavaricum Brid.
  • Splachnum gracile Dicks.
  • Splachnum intermedium Drumm.
  • Splachnum longisetum Schrank ex Schkuhr
  • Splachnum ovatum Dicks. ex Hedw.
  • Splachnum ovatum var. sphaericum (Hedw.) Dixon
  • Splachnum pedunculatum Lindb.
  • Splachnum pedunculatum subsp. sphaericum (Hedw.) Lindb.
  • Splachnum pedunculatum var. sphaericum (Hedw.) Braithw.
  • Splachnum pusillum P.Beauv.
  • Splachnum refractum Brid.
  • Splachnum sphaericum var. elongatum Drumm.
  • Splachnum sphaericum var. gracile (Dicks.) F.Weber & D.Mohr
  • Splachnum sphaericum var. minus Wahlenb.
  • Splachnum sphaericum var. ovatum (Dicks. ex Hedw.) Hartm.
  • Splachnum sphaericum var. pedunculatum (Lindb.) Jørg.
  • Splachnum sphaericum var. pubescens Hartm.
  • Splachnum sphaericum var. viride Hartm.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.