Racomitrium lanuginosum
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Racomitrium lanuginosum

Woolly Fringe-moss

Indigenous (native)native

Native to Hawaiʻi and arrived without human help.

Racomitrium lanuginosum is a widespread species of moss found in montane and arctic tundra across the Northern and Southern hemispheres. It grows as large mats on exposed rock and in boulder scree, particularly on acidic rocks. Its leaves have a characteristically decurrent and toothed hair-point, which gives rise to its regional common names woolly fringemoss, hoary rock-moss and woolly moss.

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Seasonality

Only 0 phenology-annotated observations exist for this species in Hawaiʻi — too few to describe a season. No window is inferred.

Gallery · 11 · iNaturalist
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Where documented · 30 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 142 · GBIF 152 records
Kalialinui · MauiiNat 33 · GBIF 28 ✓
Keauhou · HawaiʻiiNat 24 · GBIF 16 ✓
Waiākea · HawaiʻiiNat 20 · GBIF 17 ✓
Humuʻula · HawaiʻiiNat 13 · GBIF 12 ✓
Waimea · KauaʻiiNat 11 · GBIF 13 ✓
Papaʻanui · MauiiNat 9 · GBIF 7 ✓
Kapāpala · HawaiʻiiNat 3 · GBIF 11 ✓
Kaloko · HawaiʻiiNat 6 · GBIF 6 ✓
Piʻihonua · HawaiʻiiNat 6 · GBIF 5 ✓
Kaʻohe Mauka · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 6 ✓
ʻĀpua · HawaiʻiiNat 3 · GBIF 3 ✓
Kahikinui · MauiiNat 3 · GBIF 2 ✓
Keauhou 2 · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Nuʻu · MauiiNat 2 · GBIF 1 ✓
Makaweli · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 2 ✓
Kaʻūpūlehu · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kahuku · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kawela · MolokaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓