Bryum erythrocarpoides

Dioicous. Asexual reproduction occasionally by red-brown, irregularly globose rhizoidal tubers. Dense cushions or turfs on rocks or soil, green to bronze or dull green to reddish brown, often tinged with crimson, glossy. Stems branched by innovation, 5–10 (–50) mm long, red-brown, tomentose with brown rhizoids. Leaves imbricate, erect when moist and dry, lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, weakly concave; apex acute; costa strong, short-excurrent as a hairpoint; hairpoint rigid, reddish or brownish; margin entire, narrowly recurved on one or both sides or occasionally plane, with a border of 1–3 rows of narrow cells toward base; laminal cells in apical half narrowly rhomboidal, 40–80 μm long, 10–15 μm wide; basal laminal cells short-rectangular to quadrate. Seta 10–20 (–40) mm long, red-brown. Capsules pendulous to inclined, narrowly clavate, 2–5 mm long, curved when mature, red-purple. Operculum conic, apiculate.