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NZ Plants
Rosulabryum capillare
Family: Bryaceae
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Plants growing on the mortar of a brick wall.
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Plants with leaves
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Stem with moist leaves
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Stem with dried leaves
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Rhizoids with tubers
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A rhizoide with several attached tubers
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Young sporophyte plant, calyptra shed to expose the operculum lid
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Young capsule with operculum lid
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Mature sporophyte plants
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Mature capsule, peristome teeth
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Rosulabryum capillare has upright branches bearing large and spreading leaves that are often crowded in tufts at the end of the stem. The leaf margin is usually smooth near the leaf tip and the vein (nerve) forms a long sinuous point. When dry, the leaves are soft and shrivelled laterally, becoming conspicuously twisted in a spiral round the stem. Formerly known as Bryum capillare.
Widespread in New Zealand on soil, rock and walls.
