Autoicous or possibly paroicous. Plants c. 2 mm tall, green and gold. Leaves erect imbricate, broadly ovate, concave to cymbiform, sometimes slightly keeled near apex; apex obtuse; costa excurrent in mucro to 300 μm long; margin widely revolute from below midleaf almost to apex; laminal cells in apical half hexagonal, pentagonal or almost rectangular, 30–40 μm long, 15–20 μm wide, 20–25 μm long in extreme apex, some smooth, some papillose with 1–2 papillae; basal laminal cells rectangular, 60–120 μm long, 25–30 μm wide, narrower toward margin, smooth. Seta c. 300 μm long. Capsule erect or inclined, globose with a small apiculus, to 850 μm diam., straight.
On clay soil in woodland or on roadsides or beside salt lakes in the Wimmera and Riverina of northwest Victoria. Also SA.