Kindbergia

Dioicous. Asexual propagules absent. Mats, wefts or occasionally tufts (not in Victoria) on soil or on logs (not in Victoria). Stems creeping or ascending to erect (not in Victoria), regularly pinnately or slightly bipinnately branched, with scattered fascicles of rhizoids ventrally; paraphyllia sometimes present as longitudinal ridges; central strand present. Stem and branch leaves strongly differentiated, arranged around the stem and facing all directions, acumen more erect and slightly twisted when dry, well-spaced to loosely imbricate, plicate or not; apex acuminate; margin serrate toward apex, entire to serrulate near base, plane; laminal cells linear or linear-rhomboid, smooth, or a few near apex sharply prorate abaxially; alar cells weakly differentiated, quadrate to rectangular, often inflated. Stem leaves broadly triangular, erect-spreading to squarrose when moist, long-decurrent; costa extending 70–90 % of leaf length, sometimes subpercurrent (not in Victoria), ending in an abaxial spine or not. Branch leaves smaller and narrower than stem leaves, with more serrate margin, ovate to lanceolate, erect to erect-spreading when moist, shortly decurrent; costa extending 70–90 % of leaf length, sometimes subpercurrent (not in Victoria), more frequently ending in an abaxial spine. Seta rough or smooth. Capsule horizontal or pendent, asymmetric, ovoid to obloid, with an annulus. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, glabrous. Operculum long-rostrate. Peristome double; endostome segments nearly as long as exostome, with a high basal membrane; cilia present.