Rhizogonium distichum

Turves on tree ferns or logs, yellow-green to olive-green. Stems 8–25 mm long, red-brown at base, green among leaves, with red-brown rhizoids restricted to very base. Leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, asymmetric at base, decurrent at base on side toward stem base, 1.3–2.2 mm long, 0.6–1.1 mm wide, flat or weakly concave abaxially, distichous and wide-spreading when moist or dry; costa subpercurrent; apex acute or obtuse; margins coarsely toothed at apex, otherwise entire, without a border of elongate cells, flat; cells hexagonal in apical half, subquadrate in basal half, 12–40 μm long, 12–25 μm wide, similar length throughout. Setae 20–35 mm long, pale brown, smooth. Capsules cylindric to urceolate, inclined to pendent, rarely vertical, straight, 1.5–3.5 mm long. Operculum rostrate from conic base, 0.4–1 mm long.