Asexual propagules absent. Plants yellow green to olive green. Stems 3–15 mm long, orange, not tomentose. Leaves spreading and often keeled when moist, weakly spreading and incurved to appressed when dry, ovate to elliptic, occasionally ovate-lanceolate, 0.75–2 mm long, 0.3–0.6 mm wide, caniculate; apex broadly acute to obtuse or rounded; costa percurrent or ending 1–6 cells below apex; margins entire, recurved in basal 2/3; laminal cells in apical half rounded triangular to pentagonal, isodiametric, 7–15 μm wide, smooth or with 1–2 simple papillae, gradually transitioning to barely differentiated basal cells; basal laminal cells not clearly demarcated, quadrate to rectangular, 12–40 μm long, 5–10 μm wide, smooth. Seta 7–12 mm long, reddish brown, twisted to left. Capsule erect, cylindric, 0.6–1.5 mm long. Peristome teeth absent, rudimentary or 16 teeth to 220 μm long, cleft to near base, untwisted. Operculum rostrate from conic base, c. 0.75 mm long.
Known in Victoria from a single record from Strathdownie in the far south-west. Also QLD, NSW and Tasmania. New Zealand, North and South America, Europe, northern Africa and Asia.
