Bryum sauteri

Dioicous or synoicous. Asexual reproduction by brown to red-brown, pyriform rhizoidal tubers. Plants dull green. Stems to 15 mm long, covered toward base with red-brown rhizoids. Leaves erect-spreading when moist, more erect and narrowed when dry, ovate-lanceolate, c. 1.4 mm long, c. 0.4 mm wide; apex acuminate; costa strong, excurrent as a hairpoint; hairpoint; margin denticulate toward apex or entire, recurved at base, without a border; laminal cells in apical half 40–70 μm long, 10–14 μm wide, slightly narrower toward margin; basal laminal cells short-rectangular. Seta 10–20 mm long, brown. Capsule inclined to pendent, narrowly pyriform, 2–3 mm long. Operculum low-conic.