Leptobryum pyriforme

Usually synoicous. Asexual reproduction by rhizoidal tubers. Tufts on soil or rock. Stem erect, simple, 5–15 mm tall, dark reddish-brown, with pale reddish-brown to purplish rhizoids clustered at base or along basal half bearing numerous tubers. Leaves distant near base becoming crowded and longer near stem apex; basal leaves lanceolate, erect-spreading when moist, 1–1.5 mm long, 0.2–0.2 mm wide; leaves near stem apex long-subulate to setaceous from oblong  and sheathing base, 4–5 mm long, 0.25–4 mm wide, erect to wide-spreading when moist, flexuose when dry, caniculate; apex setaceous or subulate; costa broad, occupying 1/3–2/3 of leaf base, subpercurrent to short-excurrent; margin entire or denticulate near apex, plane; laminal cells of subula long-rectangular to linear, 70–100 µm long, 4–10 µm wide, smooth; laminal cells in sheathing base shorter and wider, oblong-hexagonal to short-rectangular, 40–80 µm long, 8–15 µm wide. Seta 15–25 mm long, yellowish- or orange-brown, smooth. Capsule horizontal to pendent, pyriform from long neck, 1.5–1.8 mm long, wrinkled in neck when dry. Operculum conic or convex.