Dioicous. Loose tufts on soil or rocks, yellow-green. Stems erect, 1–2.5 (–4) cm long, sparsely branched, with sparse dark reddish brown rhizoids at base. Leaves erect when moist, usually closely appressed when dry, occasionally squarrose-recurved when dry (not in Victoria), linear-lanceolate, 3–4.5 mm long, 0.6–0.9 mm wide; apices subulate; costae short-excurrent as denticlate awn; margins denticulate, with single or double teeth, revolute toward base, with 10–12 rows of shorter quadrate cells at base; laminal cells in apical half rectangular, 17.5–37.5 μm long, 7.5–10 μm wide, bistratose, prorate; laminal cells in basal half long-rectangular, to c. 50 μm long, 15 μm wide, patchily bistratose, prorate. Sporophytes rare (not found in Victoria). Setae c. 7 mm long, yellowish. Capsules inclined, subglobose, straight, 2 mm long. Peristome double; exostome of 16 teeth; endostome rudimentary. Operculum conic.
VVP, CVU. Recorded from dry sclerophyll forest near Seymour but likely to be more widespread. Also WA, SA and NSW. South Africa.
