Syntrichia calcicolaJ.J.Amann

tortula moss

WFO wfo-0001191324 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Syntrichia calcicola, photographed by Michel Langeveld
fig. a Michel Langeveld, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-21 / obs. 116794291
Syntrichia calcicola, photographed by George Greiff
fig. b George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109566022
Syntrichia calcicola, photographed by George Greiff
fig. c George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109566193
Syntrichia calcicola, photographed by George Greiff
fig. d George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109566191
Syntrichia calcicola, photographed by George Greiff
fig. e George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109566198
Syntrichia calcicola, photographed by George Greiff
fig. f George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109566332
Syntrichia calcicola, photographed by George Greiff
fig. g George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109566354
Syntrichia calcicola, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. h Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173196670

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 13 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.

  • Syntrichia glabra J.-P.Frahm & M.T.Gallego
  • Syntrichia montana subsp. calcicola (J.J.Amann) J.J.Amann
  • Syntrichia ruralis f. contorta (Podp.) Podp.
  • Syntrichia ruralis f. planifolia (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Syntrichia ruralis subsp. calcicolens (W.A.Kramer) Düll
  • Syntrichia ruralis var. calcicola (J.J.Amann) Mönk.
  • Tortula calcicola Grebe
  • Tortula calcicolens W.A.Kramer
  • Tortula ruralis f. contorta Podp.
  • Tortula ruralis subsp. calcicola (J.J.Amann) Giacom.
  • Tortula ruralis subsp. calcicolens (W.A.Kramer) Düll
  • Tortula ruralis var. calcicola (J.J.Amann) Barkman
  • Tortula ruralis var. planifolia Warnst.

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.