Physcomitrium pyriforme
(Hedw.) HampeAutoicous. Asexual propagules absent. Turves on soil. Stems simple or branched once, 2–11 mm long, yellowish or reddish brown, covered in rhizoids, with a well-defined central strand. Leaves oblong-obovate, 2–5 mm long, 0.8–2 mm wide, plane or weakly concave adaxially, inrolled and somewhat contorted when dry; costa subpercurrent; apex acute, without hairpoint; margins bluntly serrate near apex by projecting cell ends or occasionally almost entire, plane, with marginal cells longer and narrower but not forming a distinct border; laminal cells oblong or oblong-hexagonal, c. 45–69 μm long, 26–30 μm wide; alar cells 4–6 in angles, inflated but poorly differentiated. Seta 3–15 mm long, reddish brown. Capsule exserted, globose-pyriform, vertical, straight, 1–1.5 (–1.8) mm long. Operculum plano-convex, shortly and obtusely rostrate, c. 0.6 mm long.
GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, EGL, EGU, HSF. Widespread but scattered through southern Victoria on the muddy embankments of lakes, swamps, creeks and rivers. Also SA, QLD, NSW and Tas. New Zealand, Europe, North Africa, Siberia, south-west Asia and North America.
