Asexual reproduction occasionally by rhizoidal gemmae. Turves 0.5–7.5 cm tall on logs or tree bases, rarely earth banks, bright green to light green. Stems simple or branched, reddish brown, densely tomentose with pale brown or whitish rhizoids; central strand present. Leaves falcate-secund , barely altered when dry, narrowly lanceolate, (2.7–) 3–12.4 mm long, 0.5–1.6 mm wide, plicate, flat to canaliculate in basal half, V-shaped in apical half; apex acuminate; costa distinct, subpercurrent, abaxially with 2–4 rows of teeth in apical 1/2–4/5; margin serrate in apical 2/5–3/4, entire below, plane, with a border of 1–4 rows of cells extending to or well with serrate part of margin, sometimes reduced or absent; lamina cells in apical half oblong to linear, (8–) 10–95 (–115) μm long, 7–11 μm wide; lamina cells in basal half elongate to linear, (30–) 55–154 (–190) μm long, 8–14 (–16) μm wide; alar cells quadrate to rectangular, 30–105 μm long, 15–58 μm wide, inflated, with brown walls. Seta solitary or up to 10 per perichaetium, 4.5–27.5 mm long, yellowish, smooth. Capsule inclined to vertical, cylindrical, curved, 2–3.2 mm long. Operculum obliquely rostrate from conical base, 2–3 mm long.
GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, CVU, GGr, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Taiwan. Also Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Widespread and common in sclerophyll forests and rainforests mostly along and south of the Great Dividing Range.
