Plants 1–1.5 mm tall, scattered or gregarious on an extensive protonema. Leaves 6–10; costae rudimentary, bistratose, 2–3 cells wide, failing before apex or percurrent, absent in lower leaves and bases of larger leaves; margins plane, entire to irregularly dentate in lower leaves and basal half of perichaetial leaves, laciniate with compound, antler-like teeth in apical half of perichaetial leaves; cells oblong to irregularly rhomboidal, 30–200 μm long, 12–25 μm wide, smooth or prorate; perichaetial leaves spathulate or oblong-lanceolate, 1–1.3 mm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, arched over capsule, often conspicuously cristate on abaxial apical half, with acute, obtuse, mucronate, acuminate apex, sometimes with a terminal toothed awn to 0.5 mm long. Capsules globose or subglobose, c. bright red to reddish-brown at maturity. Calyptrae campanulate.
LoM, Wim, GleP, RobP, MuF, GipP, Gold, GGr, DunT. On damp soil near watercourses or in dry sclerophyll woodland or mallee in western Victoria. Also WA, NT, SA, QLD, NSW and Tas. Iraq.
