Tortella nitida(Lindb.) Broth.

WFO wfo-0001150108 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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.

Tortella nitida, photographed by George Greiff
fig. a George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-12 / obs. 182617916
Tortella nitida, photographed by George Greiff
fig. b George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35280798
Tortella nitida, photographed by George Greiff
fig. c George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182617974
Tortella nitida, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. d Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185370683
Tortella nitida, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. e Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185370703
Tortella nitida, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. f Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185370717
Tortella nitida, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. g Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185370747

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 34 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 alexandrina Lorentz
  • Barbula inclinata var. nitida (Lindb.) Molendo
  • Barbula muralis var. alexandrina (Lorentz) A.Jaeger
  • Barbula nitida (Lindb.) A.Jaeger
  • Barbula tortuosa subsp. nitida (Lindb.) Renauld
  • Barbula tortuosa var. fragilifolia Jur.
  • Mollia nitida (Lindb.) Lindb.
  • Mollia thrausta Stirt.
  • Mollia tortuosa var. fragilifolia (Jur.) Braithw.
  • Tortella cirrifolia (Mitt.) Broth.
  • Tortella fragilifolia (Jur.) G.Roth
  • Tortella nitida f. alpigena Grom
  • Tortella nitida f. brachyphylla Latzel
  • Tortella nitida f. media (Boulay) Podp.
  • Tortella nitida f. obtusa (Boulay) Podp.
  • Tortella nitida var. media (Boulay) Corb.
  • Tortella nitida var. obtusa (Boulay) Jelenc
  • Tortella tortuosa f. alpina Giacom.
  • Tortella tortuosa f. fragilifolia (Jur.) Mönk.
  • Tortella tortuosa f. superalpina Podp.
  • Tortella tortuosa var. fragilifolia (Jur.) Limpr.
  • Tortula cirrifolia Mitt.
  • Tortula nitida Lindb.
  • Trichostomum barbula M.T.Lange

and 10 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.

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.