Fabronia australis

Tufts on soil, rock or tree bases. Stems (5–) 10–15 mm long, simple or irregularly branched, with fascicles of rhizoids arising at leaf bases, brown, with a small central strand. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or rarely linear-lanceolate, (0.56–) 0.65–1.35 mm long, 0.18–0.33 mm wide, flat to slightly concave, weakly spr eading, secund when dry; costa weak or appearing absent, ending around mid-leaf; apex piliferous or acuminate; margins entire, denticulate, dentate or ciliate, plane, without a border; laminal cells elongate hexagonal or elongate rhomboidal, (32–) 48–90 (–125) μm long, 6–12 μm wide in mid-leaf, become smaller and grading into alar cells at base; alar cells quadrate or oblate, 10–25 μm long, 10–18 μm wide, extending from costa base to (7–) 10–15 cells up margin. Setae 2.5–6 mm long, stramineous or orange to reddish-brown, smooth. Capsules obovoid, ovoid or oblong, erect, 0.6–0.8 mm long. Operculum flat with a minute umbo, 0.1–0.15 mm long.