Calliergonella cuspidata
(Hedw.) LoeskeDioicous. Tufts or mats on soil or submerged, glossy green to yellowish green or brownish. Stems creeping to erect, subpinnately or irregularly pinnately branched, commonly to c. 100 mm long, cuspidate, brown, rhizoids rare. Leaves terete-foliate to slightly complanate. Stem leaves appressed, ovate, 1.5–2.3 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide; apices acute to obtuse-apiculate. Branch leaves erecto-patent, narrowly ovate, 1–2 mm long, 0.4–0.6 mm wide, concave; apices acute; costae short and double, faint; margins entire to slightly crenulated, plane near base to erect or inrolled toward apices; laminal cells linear, 40–95 μm long, 4–7 μm wide, smooth; alar cells conspicuously and abruptly differentiated, 30–93 μm long, 20–48 μm wide, hyaline, inflated, forming auricles. Setae 35–70 mm long, reddish brown, smooth. Capsules inclined, cylindric, curved, 2.5–4 mm long. Opercula conic-apiculate.
In the eastern outskirts of the Melbourne metropolitan area to the Yarra Ranges in wet grassy areas, disturbed sites among forest or woodland and beside streams. Also NSW, ACT and Tas. New Zealand, Ethiopia, Andes of South America and temperate and boreal Northern Hemisphere.