Syntrichia virescens(De Not.) Ochyra

lesser screw-mosstortula moss

WFO wfo-0001197435 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 virescens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-03 / obs. 126928841
Syntrichia virescens, photographed by Jerry Lanfear
fig. b Jerry Lanfear, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102058566
Syntrichia virescens, photographed by George Greiff
fig. c George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58068922
Syntrichia virescens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126928828
Syntrichia virescens, photographed by Jerry Lanfear
fig. e Jerry Lanfear, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102160777
Syntrichia virescens, photographed by Zoltán Nagy
fig. f Zoltán Nagy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172642809
Syntrichia virescens, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. g Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111425968
Syntrichia virescens, photographed by LJ Moore-McClelland
fig. h LJ Moore-McClelland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63874691

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 49 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.

  • Barbula danica M.T.Lange
  • Barbula intermedia var. pulvinata (Jur.) Milde
  • Barbula latoexcisa Müll.Hal. & Kindb.
  • Barbula pulvinata Jur.
  • Barbula pulvinata subsp. latoexcisa (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Paris
  • Barbula pulvinata var. latoexcisa (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Kindb.
  • Barbula rotundoemarginata Müll.Hal. & Kindb.
  • Barbula ruralis subsp. pulvinata (Jur.) Boulay
  • Barbula ruralis var. gracilis (C.E.O.Jensen) Paris
  • Barbula ruralis var. pulvinata (Jur.) Limpr.
  • Barbula ruralis var. virescens (De Not.) Bertol.
  • Barbula virescens (De Not.) Lorentz
  • Syntrichia aciphylla var. densa J.J.Amann
  • Syntrichia minor (Bizot) M.T.Gallego, J.Guerra, M.J.Cano, Ros & Sánchez-Moya
  • Syntrichia montana var. nivalis J.J.Amann
  • Syntrichia pulvinata (Jur.) Jur.
  • Syntrichia pulvinata f. macrophylla (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Syntrichia pulvinata f. microphylla (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Syntrichia pulvinata f. versispora (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Syntrichia pulvinata var. macrophylla (Warnst.) J.J.Amann
  • Syntrichia pulvinata var. microphylla (Warnst.) J.J.Amann
  • Syntrichia rupicola B.H.Allen
  • Syntrichia ruralis var. gracilis (C.E.O.Jensen) R.H.Zander
  • Syntrichia ruralis var. substereidosa (W.A.Kramer) R.H.Zander

and 25 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. 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.