Description: This moss is 0.5 - 2 cm (to 0.8 in.) high. Stems dark green to brownish green. Leaves 2 - 3.5 mm (to 0.14 in.) long, filiform, stiffly erect from a sheathing base, distichus (two-ranked), appearing in two opposite rows along the stem. Capsule asymmetric, oblong, inclined (bending down), peristome with 16 irregularly divided teeth.
Habitat: Known to occur on damp stream banks or rotting logs, seepage areas, and in rock crevices along cliffs in the fir-spruce belt, about 2,600 m (8,530 ft.).
Range: Present in the Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada,
possibly as the southernmost population of this species. This is a
wide-ranging Pacific Coast species.
Comments: This species was last verified locally in the mid-1950s.