Pohlia

Dioicous, paroicous or rarely autoicous (not in Victoria), synoicous or polyoicous. Asexual reproduction by rhizoidal tubers (not in Victoria) or more frequently by solitary or clustered gemmae in leaf axils near stem apices (not in Victoria). Scattered plants among other moss or turves on soil, rock or rarely logs. Stem erect, simple or forked at base or sparingly and irregularly branched by innovation when fertile, covered, sometimes sparsely, with rhizoids; central strand present. Leaves elliptic or ovate to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate (not in Victoria), erect and imbricate to erect-spreading when moist, scarcely altered when dry, decurrent or not; apex acuminate or acute; costa terminating in the apical half well below apex, subpercurrent, percurrent or rarely shortly excurrent; margin entire to serrate near apex, entire to serrulate near base, plane or recurved, without a border; laminal cells oblong-hexagonal or rhomboid to linear, sometimes longer and narrower toward margin, usually becoming shorter and quadrate to rectangular at base, smooth, unistratose; alar cells not differentiated. Perichaetia terminal. Perichaetial leaves enlarged compared to vegetative leaves. Capsule erect to pendent, curved or straight, clavate, pyriform, ovoid to cylindric or sometimes urceolate, with a short or long apophysis, without an annulus or with a revoluble annulus. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, glabrous. Operculum convex, conic or apiculate to short-rostrate. Peristome double or rarely absent (not in Victoria); endostome well-developed and around half length to same height as exostome, or rarely rudimentary (not in Victoria) or absent (not in Victoria), with a low to high basal membrane; cilia present and well-developed, or rudimentary or absent.