However, it is smaller and has short-pointed stem leaves with margins plane or nearly so and noticeably incurved branch leaves. P. Bruch et al., Bryol. Hypnum delicatulum J. Hedwig, Sp. S. O. Lindberg var. Plants green or yellowish.
Branch leaves ending in a truncate, pluripapillose cell.
Leaves of secondary branches similar but smaller. Perichaetial leaves up to 5 mm long, ciliate below, denticulate above. Common in woodlands, on soil, humus, rocks, logs, and stumps, infrequently bases of trees, apparently more often in acid substrates than T . The species, needlessly confused with T . The paraphyllia have small papillae along the cell midportions.