English name: Larger mouse-tail moss
A pleurocarpous moss with pale or yellowish-green, fairly robust shoots that appear bushy and curve downwards. The branch leaves are egg-shaped to elliptical, concave, adpressed and overlapping, giving the branches a neatly cylindrical appearance. The leaf tip is broadly pointed to acute.
In Scotland, Isothecium alopecuroides is widespread in woodland, on streambanks and in other sheltered places where it grows on tree trunks and rock. BBS distribution map
Look out for Eurhynchium striatum, Homalothecium sericeum, Hypnum cupressiforme and Thamnobryum alopecurum nearby.
Confusion species: Hypnum andoi, Hypnum cupressiforme, Isothecium myosuroides and Thamnobryum alopecurum
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