E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

Species description:
Genus name meaning delicate or slender Bryum, probably denoting the slender leaves as well as the slender, shiny seta. Species name describing the pear-shaped sporangium.

Reproduction:
Sporophytes common, the shiny golden-brown, nodding, pear-shaped sporangium is diagnostic.

Distinguishing characteristics:
The slender silken leaves, broadly divergent from a subclasping base, combined with the glossy, golden brown, pear-shaped, nodding sporangia are distinctive.

Habit:
Silky, small, light green to yellow-green plants forming loose to dense short turfs; leaves almost hair-like when dry, strongly divergent when humid.

Similar Species:
From species of Bryum and Pohlia, the slender, silken, shiny leaves are enough to separate the Leptobryum. No other moss in British Columbia has nodding, pear-shaped sporangia on a similar leafy plant with slender silken leaves.