[1] The genus Dicranoloma has 40 species, which share the features of long stems, wispy and twisted leaves, and large, erect capsules.

[3] The suffix ‘-loma’ means border, and refers to a layer of elongate cells along the leaf margins of Dicranoloma, which distinguishes this genus from Dicranum mosses.

[3][4] The word ‘dicarpum’ was coined by German botanist Nees von Esenbeck, and refers to the multiple sporophytes produced from one perichaetium.

The leaves are also strongly plicate (folded along an axis) on either side of a central nerve (midrib) running length-wise through the leaf.

[1][3] It grows on a variety of substrates including logs, rocks, tree bases and stumps, leaf litter or soil.