Tortula bolanderi(Lesq.) M.Howe

Bolander's tortula moss

WFO wfo-0001150221 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0

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.

Tortula bolanderi, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-22 / obs. 189944998
Tortula bolanderi, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183614028
Tortula bolanderi, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183153239
Tortula bolanderi, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 113932169
Tortula bolanderi, photographed by Randal
fig. e Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189945021
Tortula bolanderi, photographed by Randal
fig. f Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183833876
Tortula bolanderi, photographed by Randal
fig. g Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183153257
Tortula bolanderi, photographed by Randal
fig. h Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 113932174

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 3 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 bolanderi Lesq.
  • Barbula carnifolia Müll.Hal. & Kindb.
  • Syntrichia bolanderi (Lesq.) R.H.Zander

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.