Dioicous. Asexual reproduction usually by red or brown pyriform to irregularly globose rhizoidal tubers or sometimes by leaf axil bulbils, with leafy primordia. Stems to 20 mm long, glossy green or yellow-green, often red-tinged. Rhizoids red-brown. Leaves somewhat imbricate, slightly contorted when dry, lanceolate to ovate, to 1.5 mm long, shallowly concave; costa strong, percurrent or occasionally very short-excurrent; margin plane or slightly revolute near insertion, with a poorly defined border of 1–2 rows of elongate cells; laminal cells in apical half rhomboidal-rectangular, 80–100 μm long, 8–15 μm wide; alar region differentiated, of fewer than 10 quadrate red-tinted cells; basal laminal cells toward costa elongate. Seta 25–30 mm long, reddish. Capsules cylindric, 2–3 mm long. Operculum conic.
Recorded at Cumberland Falls in the Otways. Also WA, NT, QLD, NSW and ACT. Most warm temperate to tropical regions of the world.
