Autoicous or dioicous. Dense turves on soil. Stems to 2 mm long, branched. Leaves erect or erecto-patent when moist, twisted to slightly imbricate when dry, ovate-oblong to oblong-spathulate, 0.8–2 mm long, 0.4–0.8 mm wide, concave; apices obtuse to rounded; costae excurrent in a short mucro; filaments 1–4 (–5) cells long, terminal cells with 4–8 mamillae; margins entire, revolute to recurved, with 2 rows of smooth and transversely rectangular cells forming a border; laminal cells in apical half quadrate to rectangular, 10–20 μm long, 12–16 μm wide, papillose, pluripapillose or smooth; basal cells rectangular, 18–50 μm long, smooth. Setae 5–9 mm long, pale brown. Capsules ovoid or ellipsoid, 0.8–2.3 mm long. Opercula conic, 0.25–0.5 mm long. Peristome of 32 twisted filaments.
MuM, VVP, MuF, Gold, CVU. North-west of the state and drier areas immediately west of Melbourne in mallee and woodland. Also WA, SA and NSW. Saudi Arabia and the Canary Islands.
