Bryum coronatum

Dioicous. Asexual reproduction by axillary green or brown-green bulbils with leafy primordia. Dense tufts on soil, rock and old wood, yellowish green. Stems sparsely branched, 5–15 mm long, red-brown, covered with brown to red-brown rhizoids toward base. Leaves imbricate, erect-spreading when moist, erect and appressed and not or slightly contorted when dry, triangular or lanceolate, to 2 mm long, plane or weakly concave; apex acute to acuminate; costa excurrent as a hairpoint; hairpoint denticulate; margin entire or weakly serrulate toward apex, recurved in basal 1/2–2/3, with 2–4 rows of longer and narrower cells forming an indistinct border; laminal cells in apical half rhomboidal to elongate-hexagonal, 30–50 μm long, 8–12 μm wide; basal laminal cells quadrate. Seta 10–20 mm long, reddish brown. Capsules pendent, obloid, ellipsoid or broadly obovoid, 1.2–2.5 mm long, reddish-brown. Operculum conic, usually minutely apiculate.