Glacial Kiaeria Moss

Description

A handsome moss, forming yellow-green cushions or patches to 12 cm deep. The leaves are up to 8 mm long, erect and wavy, often point in one direction at the tip when moist, and are little altered when dry. The narrowly spearhead-shaped leaves taper gradually to a long tip which may be slightly toothed, and the cells in the basal corners form a distinct, brown group. Capsules are not common and are cylindrical, curved, swollen at the base (see drawing on p. 373), and borne on a long seta.