Pohlia elongata

Paroicous, rarely dioicous or autoicous (not in Victoria). Asexual propagules absent. Plants pale to dark green, forming loose tufts or turves on soil or in rock crevices. Stems 5–30 mm long, dark red to reddish-yellow, simple or branched, sparsely tomentose near base. Leaves spreading to erect-spreading when moist, appressed and flexuose when dry, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 0.5–3.5 mm long, 0.2–0.5 mm wide, plane; apex acute to acuminate; costa subpercurrent; margins serrate to serrulate near apices, plane or recurved near middle; laminal cells in apical half long-rhomboidal to fusiform, 30–80 μm long, 5–11 μm wide, smooth; basal laminal cells short-rectangular, 20–40 (–60) μm long, 6–20 μm wide. Seta 10–45 mm long, yellowish-brown to brownish-red, smooth. Capsule erect to horizontal, narrowly pyriform or long ellipsoid, occasionally curved, 3–8 mm long. Operculum conic-apiculate, c. 0.4–1.1 mm long.