(Eurhynchium angustirete) Blunt-leaved beaked moss

Blunt-leaved beaked moss (Eurhynchium angustirete) is a species of plants in the family Brachytheciaceae.
Habitat: shady, fresh or moist, basic to moderately acidic; on forest soil, also on rotten wood and on trunk bases; submontane and montane locations.
Botany: Moss; vigorous; forms loose, green, shiny, often quite extensive lawns; up to over 5 centimetres high.
Stem: tree-like branched, individual branches often flagellately elongated.
Leaves: stem leaves are heart-shaped and broadly pointed, sparsely protruding, longitudinally lobed , serrate all around the edges, 20 to 30% longer than wide and at the leaf tip the leaf margins have an angle of 45 to 85 degrees; branch leaves are somewhat smaller and narrower; with a simple rib up to about 3/4 of the leaf length, with the end of the rib usually emerging as a spine on the back of the leaf; leaf cells are linear and thin-walled in the middle of the leaf, shorter, somewhat broader, moderately thick-walled and dotted at the base; the leaf wing cells are rectangular.
Capsule: infrequently; spore maturity can occur throughout the year;sporophyte has an erect, red, smooth seta bearing an inclined to horizontal, curved, cylindrical spore capsule.
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