Thuidium laeviusculum

Dioicous. Loose wefts on soil, rocks, logs and tree bases. Stems to c. 15 (–25) cm long, branching bipinnately or tripinnately; branches to c. 1.5 cm long. Stem leaves appressed to patent when moist or dry, deltoid, triangular or triangular-ovate, to 1.5 (–2) mm long, to 0.8 mm wide, plicate when moist or dry; apices acuminate; costae extending into the acumen or excurrent as hair-point; margins crenulated or entire in acumen, recurved, becoming plane in acumen; cells isodiametric to elongate and variable in shape, c. 5–12 μm wide, pluripapillose. Branch leaves erecto-patent when moist, appressed or loosely imbricate when dry, broadly ovate-triangular to ovate, to c. 0.3 mm long; apices mostly acute or weakly acuminate, occasionally obtuse; costae extending at least 2/3 leaf length; margins serrulate to denticulate; cells isodiametric or nearly so, 5–8 (–10) μm wide, pluripapillose. Setae to c. 4.5 cm long, entirely red or becoming orange or yellow toward capsule, smooth. Capsules inclined to pendent, oblong to cylindric, c. 5 mm long. Calyptrae cucullate, glabrous.