Sciuro-hypnum

Autoicous or rarely dioicous (not in Victoria). Asexual propagules absent. Mats or tufts on soil or rock. Stems creeping to ascending, irregularly or regularly pinnately (not in Victoria) branched, with straight or curved branches, with scattered fascicles of rhizoids; paraphyllia absent; central strand present. Stem and branch leaves differentiated, erect to erect-spreading or wide-spreading and squarrose (not in Victoria) when moist, scarcely altered, more erect or occasionally twisted (not in Victoria) when dry, imbricate, arranged around stem and facing all directions, homomallous or rarely complanate (not in Victoria), not or only slightly plicate, short- to long-decurrent; alar cells differentiated, quadrate to rectangular, occasionally inflated (not in Victoria), forming an ovate or triangular group, sometimes extending apically along margin or extending to the costa. Stem leaves ovate or ovate-triangular to lanceolate; apex acute, acuminate or occasionally obtuse and apiculate (not in Victoria); costa extending to midleaf to percurrent, sometimes ending in a spine, but usually not; margin entire to serrate, plane or sometimes recurved toward base; laminal cells linear, shorter at base, smooth; Branch leaves smaller than stem leaves, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate; apex rounded, obtuse, acute or acuminate; costa extending to midleaf to percurrent, more frequently ending in a spine; margins usually serrate, plane or recurved near base; laminal cells linear, shorter at base, smooth or occasionally prorate (not in Victoria). Seta rough, very rarely smooth (not in Victoria). Capsule inclined to pendent or rarely erect (not in Victoria), straight (not in Victoria) or curved, ovoid or obloid, with an annulus. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, glabrous. Operculum conic or rarely rostellate. Peristome double; endostome segments similar height as exostome, with a high basal membrane; cilia present.