Bartramia mossmaniana

Autoicous. Loose tufts on soil or rocks, rarely logs or tree bases, yellow-green. Stems 3–10 cm long, with dense pale reddish brown rhizoids at base. Leaves patent or spreading and secund when moist, sometimes recurved, patent and loosely crisped when dry, with an obovate hyaline sheathing base and a linear-lanceolate green lamina, (4.3–) 5.4–11.3 (–12.4) mm long, (0.5–) 0.6–0.9 (–1.125) mm wide; apices subulate; costae short-excurrent as a denticulate awn; margins denticulate, recurved, without a distinct border; laminal cells in apical half quadrate to shortly rectangular, (6–) 7–15 (–22) μm long, 7–10 (–12) μm wide, unistratose, papillose; laminal cells in basal half linear, (27–) 37–79 (–95) μm long, 7–9 μm wide, hyaline, unistratose, papillose. Setae 2–8 mm long, light reddish brown or orange brown, smooth. Capsules suberect, globose or subglobose to broadly cylindric, asymmetric, (1.5–) 1.7–2.4 (–2.7) mm long. Peristome of 16 exostome teeth; endostome rudimentary.