Synoicous. Dense tufts on soil, bright green. Stems 5–10 mm long, with sparse dark red-brown rhizoids at base. Leaves erect when moist, closely appressed when dry, narrowly lanceolate, without a sheathing base, 1.5–4 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide; apices acuminate; costae short-excurrent in a serrulate awn; margins denticulate, narrowly recurved, bistratose, with 3–5 weakly defined rows of shorter quadrate cells at base; cells in apical half rectangular, 20–45 μm long, 8–10 μm wide, mainly unistratose with bistratose patches, prorate; cells in basal half elongate, to 75 μm long, to 12.5 μm wide, hyaline, unistratose, smooth. Seta c. 8 mm long. Capsule erect, subglobose to ovoid, symmetric, c. 0.8–1.3 mm long. Peristome of 16 short peristome teeth, endostome absent or rudimentary. Operculum conic.
Gold, CVU. Recorded in Victoria from sclerophyll forest on clay near Beaufort and Maldon. Also SA.
