Dioicous. Asexual propagules absent. Tufts on soil or rock, green, yellow-green or brown-green, dull or glossy. Stems simple or branched with short innovations, often in comal tufts, 5–20 mm long, red-brown, tomentose with brown or brick-red rhizoids. Leaves comose, interrupted-comose on longer stems, erect-spreading when moist, appressed and closely imbricate when dry, ovate-oblong, 1.5–2 mm long, strongly concave; apex broadly acute; costa percurrent or short-excurrent as a mucro; margin entire or slightly denticulate, recurved, without a border; laminal cells in apical half irregular, 25–60 μm long, 12–20 μm wide; basal laminal cells subquadrate. Seta 20–25 mm long, red-brown. Capsule horizontal to pendulous, oblong or clavate, to 2 mm long, brown. Operculum conic, apiculate.
VVP, Gold, CVU, DunT, WPro, VAlp. In Victoria recorded from woodland near Toolern Vale north-west of Melbourne, from near Mt Baw Baw and Mt Latrobe, Wilsons Promontory. Also NSW and Tas. New Zealand.
