Identification notes
This handsome species is relatively large and distinctive (for a Bryum), although it is a scarce moss of upland, often remote wet habitats. It can form quite large patches though, and they are characteristically pink-tinged. It usually grows in well-lit situations and its shoots are usually well-coloured. Plants growing in shaded situations may be green, but are still distinctive in having leaf bases that are conspicuously broad and long-decurrent – a feature not shown by any of our other Bryum species.
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