Growing on wet sands together with Sphagnum fitzgeraldii. Februar 2017.
Conserved traits after four years of culturing (November 2021) in contrast to the very close S. lescurii.
strikingly red setae, leaves dry. On top of rock with thin layer of soil
Large herd raided three trash barrels out for pickup along the road.
On rock. 24-73. [Bryum (Allen, Mosses of Maine) or Rosulabryum (bryophyte portal) in other references]. Filiform, brown propagulae in leaf axils. Many propagules over old leaves at base of plant and over soil. Leaves in rosulate tufts, narrowly obovate to elliptical, cuspidate or awned, costa subpercurrent, percurrent or excurrent, border of 1-2 rows of cells.
Tufts on disturbed soil in garden. 24-72. Rosette of leaves below capsule. Capsules appear long and thin initially with long rostrate calyptrum, become globose when mature. Leaves green initially, becoming brown beneath globose capsules.
Evenly crenulate-serrulate leaf margin; costa is dark, ends in leaf cusp; no border, leaf cells strongly mammillose and bulging; leaves up to 15 pairs. Usually on shaded, damp soil.