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

Species description:
Species name denoting raw or uncooked, presumably in reference to the opalescent sheen of the leaves that sometimes characterizes uncooked meat.

Reproduction:
Sporophytes occasional, maturing in spring, light red brown when ripe, varying from erect to nodding.

Distinguishing characteristics:
The toothed, opalescent, glossy leaves, the occasionally erect to suberect sporangia and the shaded terrestrial or cliff crevice habitat are all useful features.

Habit:
Forming loose, opalescent, glossy short turfs.

Similar Species:
In Pohlia only P. cruda shows the glossy, opalescent leaves.