Species: Bryoxiphium norvegicum

Mosses slender, linear, erect and twisted, light-green or yellowish, shiny. Leaves crowded and overlapping in 2 rows, keeled-conduplicate, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or rounded and finely crenate at the apex, becoming abruptly apiculate and subulate near the tip of the fertile stems and grading into the perichaetial leaves, gradually narrowed to a long, flexuose, hylaine awn with entire or sinuate margins; costa ending somewhat below the apex in the lower leaves, disappearing in the subula in the uppermost and perichaetial leaves, the dorsal lamella usually not reaching the leaf base, sometimes ending above midleaf, occasionally nearly lacking. Setae erect-flexuose or somewhat cygneous; capsules shortly obovoid, systylious (Crum and Anderson 1981).