Autoicous or dioicous. Stems to 3 mm long. Leaves oblong to ovate, 0.7–1.5 mm long, 0.4–0.65 mm wide, concave; apices obtuse to rounded; costae excurrent in a smooth hyaline hair-point 0.2–0.5 mm long or rarely a mucro; filaments 4–9 cells long, terminal cells with 1–4 mamillae; margins entire, recurved; cells quadrate to rectangular, 10–24 μm long, mostly smooth, rarely papillose or pluripapillose; basal cells quadrate to rectangular, 14–50 μm long, smooth. Setae 5–10 mm long. Capsules cylindric to ovoid, 1.3–2.2 mm long. Opercula conic, 0.5–0.8 mm long. Peristome of 32 twisted filaments.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, Gold. In open sites where bare soil occurs like roadsides, cemeteries and among woodland or chenopod scrub in the north-west. Also WA, NT, SA and NSW. New Zealand, northern Africa and the Canary Islands.
