Hedenaesia austrina
(Hook.f. & Wilson) Huttunen & IgnatovInterwoven and sometimes pendent mats on wet rocks. Stems commonly c. 40 mm long, irregularly branched, light brown, with fascicles of dark brown rhizoids, central strand present. Stem and branch leaves not differentiated, broadly ovate, weakly homomallous to second, weakly complanate, c. 1.8–2.1 (–2.3) mm long, 1–1.3 mm wide, concave and striolate when moist, scarcely altered when dry; costae extending c. 2/3 leaf length, not ending in abaxial spine; apices broadly acute to rounded; margins denticulate in apical half; cells linear, mostly (60–) 75–87 (–115) μm long, c. 6 μm wide, smooth or very weakly prorate, shorter and broader near apex and base; alar cells not differentiated. Setae c. 13–16 mm long, orange- to dark brown, coarsely and densely papillose. Capsules inclined to nearly horizontal, broadly obovoid, curved, 1.2–2 mm long. Operculum rostrate from conic base, c. 1.3 mm long.
On constantly wet rocks in and beside creeks and waterfalls in the Grampians, Otways, on the Mornington Peninsula, and along the Strzelecki Range and Great Dividing Range east of Melbourne. Also Qld, NSW, ACT and Tas. New Zealand and Macquarie Island.
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