Pseudoblindia
Autoicous or sometimes dioicous. Asexual propagules absent. Tufts or mats on rock or soil (not in Victoria), usually aquatic. Stem simple or branched by forking or innovation; central strand present or absent. Leaves subulate from an oblong to lanceolate base, erect to erect-spreading or falcate-secund when moist, similar or flexuose when dry; apex acuminate; costa excurrent, occupying most of the subula width, sometimes poorly defined near base (not in Victoria); margin entire, plane or slightly incurved toward apex, without a border; laminal cells linear to quadrate (not in Victoria), smooth or mamillose (not in Victoria) to weakly papillose toward apex (not in Victoria), unistratose; alar cells poorly differentiated or moderately differentiated, subquadrate to hexagonal, inflated, brown. Capsule exserted, erect, straight or curved (not in Victoria), hemispheric or obovate to cylindric, smooth or weakly furrowed, with a weakly differentiated persistent annulus. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, glabrous. Operculum rostrate, often sytylious. Peristome of 16 teeth divided half way into two filaments or rudimentary (not in Victoria).
Four species, one in Northern Hemisphere montane or subpolar regions, one endemic to southern South America, one endemic to New Zealand, and one shared between south-east Australia, New Zealand and southern South America.
The three Southern Hemisphere species were formerly included in Blindia, but were found by phylogenetic analyses of chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA sequences to be misplaced in that genus and its family, the Seligeriaceae (Fedosov et al. 2021). The Northern Hemisphere species was misplaced in Kiaeria, which belongs to the Dicranaceae.
Fedosov, V.E.; Fedorova, A.V.; Larraín, J.; Santos, M.B.; Stech, M.; Kučera, J.; Brinda, J.C.; Tubanova, D.Y.; Von Konrat, M.; Ignatova, E.A.; Ignatov, M.S. (2021). Unity in diversity: phylogenetics and taxonomy of Rhabdoweisiaceae (Dicranales, Bryophyta). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 545–567.