Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.
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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 154 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -8.8 °C | -3.6 °C | 0.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 20.6 °C | 23.1 °C | 25.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 596 mm | 912 mm | 1,422 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 99 mm | 161 mm | 271 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 154 research-grade observations of Tortella inclinata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 31 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 angustifolia Brid.
- Barbula fragilis subsp. inclinata (R.Hedw.) Boulay
- Barbula inclinata (R.Hedw.) Schwägr.
- Barbula inclinata f. acuminata Farneti
- Barbula inclinata var. brachypoda Besch.
- Barbula inclinata var. leptotheca Brid.
- Barbula inclinatula Müll.Hal. & Kindb.
- Barbula leptotheca (Brid.) Brid.
- Barbula nervosa Brid.
- Barbula nervosa (P.Beauv.) Schultz
- Barbula nervosa var. inclinata (R.Hedw.) Brid.
- Barbula tortuosa subsp. inclinata (R.Hedw.) Bouvet
- Mollia inclinata (R.Hedw.) Lindb.
- Mollia tortuosa var. inclinata (R.Hedw.) Lindb.
- Tortella inclinata f. acuminata (Farneti) Paris
- Tortella inclinata f. alpina Tosco
- Tortella inclinata f. mutica (Latzel) Podp.
- Tortella inclinata f. saltans Loeske
- Tortella inclinata f. subalbescens Latzel
- Tortella inclinata var. brachypoda (Besch.) Paris
- Tortella inclinata var. inclinata
- Tortella inclinata var. leptotheca (Brid.) Paris
- Tortella inclinata var. mutica Latzel
- Tortella inclinatula (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Broth.
and 7 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.