Aloina bifrons
(De Not.) Delgad.Plants 1.5–4 mm tall. Leaves weakly spreading when moist, incurved when dry, narrowly to broadly elliptic with a short sheathing base, to c. 2 mm long, concave; apex cucullate, acute; costa excurrent as a mucro in lower leaves, excurrent as a smooth hyaline arista 0.5–1 mm long in upper leaves, broad throughout occupying most of the leaf width; margins incurved; laminal cells in apical half elliptic, nearly quadrate near margin, 15–20 μm long, 7–8 μm wide; basal cells subquadrate, 15–60 μm long, pellucid. Seta to 14 mm long. Capsules erect, cylindric, 3–3.5 mm long, brown. Peristome brown. Operculum narrowly conic, c. 1 mm long.
LoM, MuM, GleP, Brid, VRiv, RobP, Gold, CVU, EGU. In open sites and often moist depressions along roadsides and among open woodland, mallee and coastal vegetation in western Victoria, with disjunct occurrences in rain shadow areas around Willis in the far east of the state. Also WA, SA and NSW. New Zealand, Mediterranean region, South Africa and the Americas.
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