Thuidium recognitum(Hedw.) Lindb.

thuidium moss

WFO wfo-0001149752 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

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.

Thuidium recognitum, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. a Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-14 / obs. 176006464
Thuidium recognitum, photographed by Tero Linjama
fig. b Tero Linjama, CC0 1.0 / obs. 119686817
Thuidium recognitum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. c Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34149413
Thuidium recognitum, photographed by Ken Kneidel
fig. d Ken Kneidel, CC0 1.0 / obs. 33372426
Thuidium recognitum, photographed by Tero Linjama
fig. e Tero Linjama, CC0 1.0 / obs. 119686839
Thuidium recognitum, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. f Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176006395
Thuidium recognitum, photographed by Ken Kneidel
fig. g Ken Kneidel, CC0 1.0 / obs. 33372533
Thuidium recognitum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. h Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34161163

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.

  • Hypnum protensum Michx.
  • Hypnum recognitum Hedw.
  • Hypnum tamariscinum var. protensum Brid.
  • Hypnum tamariscinum var. recognitum (Hedw.) DC.
  • Thuidium delicatulum subsp. dubiosum (Warnst.) J.J.Amann
  • Thuidium delicatulum var. dubiosum (Warnst.) Dism.
  • Thuidium dubiosum Warnst.
  • Thuidium protensum (Brid.) A.Jaeger
  • Thuidium recognitum f. condensum Lindb. ex H.A.Möller
  • Thuidium recognitum f. gracilescens (Warnst.) Mönk.
  • Thuidium recognitum var. dubiosum (Warnst.) Wijk & Margad.
  • Thuidium recognitum var. gracilescens 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.