Autoicous. Turves on soil. Stems to 15 mm long, once branched, pale brown or red-brown. Leaves lingulate, 1.5–3 (–4) mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide, plane to weakly concave; costa thin, weak, ending c. 5–10 cells, rarely more, below apex; margins entire or weakly crenulated toward apex, plane, without a border; apex acute or obtuse, without a hairpoint; laminal cells in apical half oblong-hexgonal, 70–100 (–130) μm long, 24–30 (–45) μm wide, longer and more oblong near base; alar cells not differentiated or slightly more pigmented than adjacent cells. Seta (5–) 10–20 (–23) mm long, pale brown. Capsule oblong-obovoid or oblong-pyriform, symmetric, erect, 1.5–2.5 (–3) mm long. Operculum mammilate, conic or strongly convex, c. 0.4 mm diameter. Peristome double; endostome rudimentary, to 120 μm long.
Likely to have been collected in Victoria by Mueller based on a collection labelled Australian Alps. Elsewhere in Australia it occurs in alpine areas beside streams, in seepages or wet outcrops. Also NSW and Tas. New Zealand, sub-Antarctic Islands and South America.
