Dioicous. Asexual reproduction by sessile leaf gemmae. Cushions on rocks, green to yellowish green. Stems 0.5–2.5 cm long, red-brown, with sparse red-brown rhizoids near base, with a weak central strand. Leaves patent when moist, apices spreading when dry, lanceolate, 1.3–3 mm long, 0.25–0.5 mm wide, keeled; apex acuminate, with a bluntly denticulate hyaline hair-point or without a hair-point; hair-point hyaline, smooth, to 0.6 mm long; costa excurrent as hairpoint or percurrent; margins entire, recurved in basal half on one side, bistratose, without a border; laminal cells of apical half rounded quadrate or short-rectangular, 5–13 μm long, 6–13 μm wide, smooth, unistratose except at margins, sinuose, slightly or not incrassate, transitioning gradually to basal laminal cells except near margin; basal laminal cells rectangular or quadrate, 7–75 μm long, 6–18 μm wide, smooth, sometimes sinuose near costa otherwise straight walled, those near margins clearly distinguished from cells closer to costa. Seta 1.5–3.5 mm long, curved when moist, straight when dry, yellow, smooth, twisted anticlockwise. Capsule obloid, 1–1.3 mm long, straight, yellowish or light brown. Operculum rostrate or oblique-rostrate from conic base, c. 0.4 mm long. Calyptra mitrate. Peristome present.
Gold, CVU, VAlp. Recorded four times in Victoria in a range of different habitats from exposed rock in central Victoria to the alpine zone. Also WA, NSW and Tas. New Zealand, southern Africa, and South to North America.
