Bryum dichotomum

Dioicous. Asexual reproduction by numerous bulbils, 0.3–1 mm long, bearing rudimentrary leaves in upper leaf axils, or sometimes by red globose rhizoidal tubers. Tufts or turfs on soil or sometimes rock, brown to yellowish green, often glossy. Stems sparsely branched, 5–20 mm long, pale or red-brown, sparsely covered with brown to red-brown rhizoids. Leaves imbricate, erect to erecto-patent when moist or dry, somewhat folded longitudinally when dry, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 0.75–1.5 mm long, 0.3–0.7 mm wide, weakly concave; apex acuminate; costa percurrent or excurrent as a hairpoint; hairpoint rigid, yellow; margin entire, plane, rarely recurved near base, without a distinct border; laminal cells in apical half hexagonal to rhomboidal, 35–50 μm long, 10–12 μm wide, becoming narrowly rectangular, to 80 μm long, toward margin; basal laminal cells quadrate or short-rectangular. Seta 5–15 mm long, red-brown. Capsule pendent or horizontal, obloid-ellipsoid or obovoid, 1.5–2 mm long, pale to dark brown. Operculum low-conic.