Plants bright green, reddish brown, or dark brown. Stems to 1.6 cm. Stem leaves oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, not rugose, 1.5–2.3 mm; margins sometimes serrulate at apex; apex gradually acute or acuminate; costa percurrent; distal laminal cells irregularly quadrate to rounded-elliptic, 6–8 µm. Seta 3–5 mm. Capsule 1.4–2 mm. Calyptra smooth.

Habitat: Logs, trunks of trees to 8 m, undisturbed hemlock hardwood zone
Elevation: moderate elevations

Distribution

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N.C.

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Schlotheimia lancifolia is extremely rare and endemic to the southern Blue Ridge Escarpment. It differs from S. rugifolia in having non-rugose, gradually acute leaves.

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