Brachythecium salebrosum (hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.mohr) Schimp.

Plants medium-sized to large, in moderately dense mats, green, yellowish, brownish, or brownish yellow. Stems to 8 cm, creeping, terete-foliate, irregularly or often regularly pinnate, branches to 8 mm, straight to slightly curved, terete-to subcomplanate-foliate. Stem leaves erect to erect-spreading, loosely imbricate to somewhat spaced, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly ovate-triangular, broadest at 1/10-1/7 leaf length, slightly concave, plicate, 1.7-2.6 × 0.6-1 mm; base shortly rounded, narrowly short-decurrent; margins plane or recurved at places, serrulate to serrate; apex gradually tapered or long-acuminate; costa to 60-75% leaf length, strong, terminal spine present; alar cells subquadrate to short-rectangular, same size as or smaller than basal cells, 12-20 × 10-13µm, walls moderately thick, region clearly delimited, of 3-6 × 3-5 cells; laminal cells linear, 40-100 × 6-9 µm; basal cells to 10-12 µm wide, region in 1 or 2 rows, . Branch leaves with basal laminal cells enlarged across base. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta orange-brown to dark brown, 1-2 cm, smooth. Capsule horizontal, brown to dark brown, elongate, curved, 2 mm; annulus separating by fragments; operculum long-conic. Spores 13-17 µm.