Dawsonia superba, the largest moss in New Zealand, with unbranched stems sometimes reaching heights of 50 cm and 35 mm long leaves.
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NZ Plants
Forms and sizes of mosses
Mosses exhibit a wide variety of growth forms and sizes.
Small, pendant mosses
Weymouthia cochlearifolia - A moss that is an epiphyte, growing on branches of bushes and trees, forming hanging masses of branching stems
Weymouthia cochlearifolia - The overlapping leaves are broadly ovate and concave.
Small, erect and spreading mosses
Macromitrium sp.- A small creeping moss, common on trunks or branches of smooth-barked trees or on rock.
See Find by Genus page for Macromitrium species
Small cushion forming mosses
Leptostomum macrocarpon (syn., L. macrocarpum) - A moss with short erect stems arranged into compact cushions.
Leptostomum inclinans - A cutaway view of the cushion to show the individual stems.