Stems (5–) 10–20 mm long. Leaves when dry or moist usually falcate, secund, often flexuose, tapering from oblong base, 0.7–1.6 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm wide; apices acute, variably flexed; costae extending to apex, indistinct, composed of more elongate cells than lamina, c. 3/5–4/5 width of leaf base; margins crenate or toothed near base, plane to incurved; cells in apical half smooth, mainly bistratose, isodiametric, 5–8 μm long, 5–10 μm wide; cells at base mostly isodiametric or short-rectangular, 5–12 μm long, 5–9 μm wide, some cells near margin and insertion more elongate. Perigonial paraphyses present. Perichaetial leaves convolute and sheathing. Pseudopodium c. 0.7 mm long. Capsules c. 0.5 mm long. Turgid spores 20–35 μm diameter; shrivelled spores c. 18 μm diameter.
GGr, HNF, VAlp. Among exposed rocky outcrops on the Bogong High Plains, Mount Buffalo and Mount William in the Grampians in the alpine zone and among subalpine woodland. Also NSW, ACT and Tas. New Zealand.
