Leucobryum javense Mitten 1859

Plants usually robust, often more than 6 cm high, whitish green tinged with yellow or purple, in loose tufts or cushions. Stems erect, simple or branched; central strand absent. Leaves crowded, ca. 1 cm × 2 mm, often falcate-secund, broadly lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, gradually narrowed to subtubulose apices from broadly ovate base, acute to bluntly mucronate at apex, dorsal side of leaf acumina papillosely prorate, margins bordered by 2–3 rows of linear cells on the upper parts of leaves, lamina near leaf base consisting of 4–6 rows of quadrate to rectangular cells; costal leucocysts 2–3 layers on both sides of a median layered chlorocysts. Dioicous. Sporophytes not seen. [According to Eddy (1990), setae 15–20 mm long; capsules inclined and curved, strumose; peristome teeth the same as described under the genus.]

Distribution: China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, and New Guinea.

Habitat: on soil, rocks, and tree trunks under broad-leafed forests.