Stem simple to sparingly branched, to 14 cm long. Leaves erecto-patent to squarrose when dry, lanceolate, 2.6–3.8 (–5.8) mm long, 0.7–1.1 (–1.6) mm wide, plicate; apex acuminate; costa percurrent to short excurrent; margin serrulate toward apex, plane to slightly recurved toward base; mid-laminal cells irregular, linear, short-rectangular or isodiametric, (8–) 10–42 μm long, 4–6 μm wide; alar cells inflated, rectangular to short-rectangular, 20–50 μm long, 10–18 μm wide, c. 2–7 rows. Seta c. 15 mm long. Capsules inclined to almost pendulous, ovoid to cylindric, sulcate when dry.
MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, MonT, HFE, VAlp. New Zealand and Macquarie Island. Along the Great Dividing Range in moist sites in sclerophyll forest and in the alpine zone particularly along streams.
