Dioicous. Asexual reproduction by red rhizoidal tubers in leaf axils or around stem base. Tufts on soil or soil over rock, golden or brown-green. Stems to c. 15 mm tall. Rhizoids red-brown to brown. Leaves suberect, triangular, more than 2 mm long and 0.8 mm wide, slightly plicate, rugose; apex long-acuminate; costa excurrent as a stiff hairpoint; margin strongly revolute, without a border; laminal cells in apical half rhomboidal, 30–40 μm long, 10 μm wide; basal laminal cells quadrate, brownish across insertion. Seta 25–30 mm long, reddish. Capsules horizontal to pendulous, c. 3 mm long, dark red-brown to purplish. Operculum high-domed.
Known in Victoria from a record with the details ‘Eastern Victoria’. Also WA, NSW and Tas. New Zealand, New Guinea and South America.
