Calyptrochaeta brownii

Asexual propagules absent. Loose, sometimes open turves on soil, rocks, logs or tree ferns and tree trunks, yellowish green to dark green. Stems 8–30 mm long, simple or branched, red-brown, with scattered red-brown rhizoids and a dense tuft of rhizoids at stem base, central strand absent. Leaves erect when moist, slightly undulate or flexuose when dry, asymmetric, spathulate to obovate, 1.3–3 mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm wide, often smaller in ventral and dorsal ranks, plane; costa very weak or absent; apex rounded or obtuse, apiculate, 30–150 μm long; margins entire or weakly dentate toward apex, plane, with 1–4 rows of more elongate cells forming a weak border throughout; laminal cellsin apical half away from margin ±rounded to oblong-hexagonal, 25–75 μm long, 15–40 μm wide; laminal cells near base away from margin rhomboid-hexagonal, 50–120 μm long, 15–40 μm wide; marginal laminal cells linear, 40–120 μm long, 3–4 μm wide. Setae 2–6 mm long, pale brown, slightly papillose. Capsule ovoid, horizontal or pendulous, straight, 0.6–1.5 mm long. Calyptra smooth, fringed at base. Operculum 0.4–0.6 mm long.