| Name | Sphagnum compactum de Candolle |
| Authorship | de Candolle |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Sphagnum |
| Contains | Sphagnum compactum var. brachycladum Röll Sphagnum compactum var. imbricatum Warnstorf Sphagnum compactum var. rigidum Nees & Hornschuch Sphagnum compactum var. robustum Müller Halle Sphagnum compactum var. squarrosulum (C. E. O. Jensen) Limpricht Sphagnum compactum var. squarrosum (Russow) Warnstorf Sphagnum compactum var. subsquarrosum Warnstorf |
| Citation | 1805 Fl. Franc. [Lamarck], ed. 2. 2: 443 |
| Holdings | 135 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Sphagnum compactum de Candolle |
| Identification made in | [no date] (127), 1994 (1), 2002 (2), 2016 (2), 2024 (3) |