Species: Bryum miniatum

Mosses in dense, deep, shiny tufts 2-7 cm high, typically red or red-tinged, occasionally yellowish to yellow-brown, scarcely radiculose. Stems often forked. Leaves crowded, imbricate and scarcely contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist, broadly oblong to oblong-ovate, rounded-obtuse and often cucullate-concave at the apex, not decurrent; margins plane, entire; costa usually distinctly red, narrow but distinct and prominent at back, percurrent or ending somewhat below the apex. Dioicous. Setae 25-40 mm long, dark red, flexuose; capsules pendulous to pendent, clavate, with a well-developed neck; reddish or brownish; operculum convex, apiculate; peristome teeth yellowish-brown; cilia of endostome well-developed, nodose to somewhat appendiculate (Crum and Anderson 1981).