Usually growing on rock, occasionally on soil. Leaves linear-lanceolate, usually more than 5 times longer than wide; apex acute to acuminate; costa percurrent, occasionally excurrent. Rhizautoicous. Setae 2–5 (–10) mm long. Calyptra usually papillose, mitrate.
Widespread south of the Great Dividing Range on moist road or tracksides, damp open depressions, besides creeks, in gullies among wet sclerophyll forest or in rainforest. Also WA, SA, QLD, NSW, Tas and Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. New Zealand, Auckland and Campbell Islands, New Caledonia, Chile and Réunion.
