English: Fern-leaved Hook-moss.
Region: cosmopolitan.
Habitat: moist or wet, base-rich habitats, including springs, flushes, rock ledges, stony ground; weedy habitats, gravelly gateways, tracksides, on old tarmac.
BotanyVery variable moss
Stems: pinnate shoots; typically 1 to 3 cm long, with a rather pale tip; stout nerve prominent all the way to the tip, making the shoots look spiky, looking hooked; bears red-brown rhizoids; may also have tiny leaf-like structures, sparse and confined to upper parts of shoots.
Leaves: rigid; 1 mm long, and straight or slightly or strongly curved; stem leaves are triangular, broadest just above the base, and taper evenly to a fine, acute tip; patches of enlarged cells in the leaf base; branch leaves are narrower, broadly spearhead-shaped to egg-shaped.
Capsules: uncommon.