Bartramia nothostricta

Synoicous. Dense tufts on soil, bright green. Stems 5–10 mm long, with sparse dark red-brown rhizoids at base. Leaves erect when moist, closely appressed when dry, narrowly lanceolate, without a sheathing base, 1.5–4 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide; apices acuminate; costae short-excurrent in a serrulate awn; margins denticulate, narrowly recurved, bistratose, with 3–5 weakly defined rows of shorter quadrate cells at base; cells in apical half rectangular, 20–45 μm long, 8–10 μm wide, mainly unistratose with bistratose patches, prorate; cells in basal half elongate, to 75 μm long, to 12.5 μm wide, hyaline, unistratose, smooth. Seta c. 8 mm long. Capsule erect, subglobose to ovoid, symmetric, c. 0.8–1.3 mm long. Peristome of 16 short peristome teeth, endostome absent or rudimentary. Operculum conic.