Yellow Awn Candle Snuffer Moss

Description

A pale green moss with broad, more or less parallel-sided, opaque, very matt leaves, abruptly narrowed to a shortly excurrent nerve, which is sometimes elongated into a colourless hair point. Shoots typically grow up to about 2 cm tall, with leaves 3 mm long. The capsules, which are usually present, are longitudinally ribbed, have a peristome, and until maturity are entirely covered by a very large calyptra.