Tayloria octoblephara

Dioicous. Asexual propagules absent. Tufts often on animal remains or faeces, occasionally on soil, rocks or tree trunks. Stem to (7–) 10–15 (–25) mm tall, usually simple, pink, densely covered in purple-brown rhizomes throughout. Leaves erect-spreading, moderately crisped and ridged due to protruding costa when dry, spathulate or narrowly obovate, 3–4.5 mm long, 0.8–1.5 (–2.5) mm wide, perichaetial leaves longer, flat; costa ending c. 6–10 cells below apex in lower leaves, short excurrent as a green, golden or red hairpoint to 1.2 mm long in upper leaves; apex acute or apiculate; margins entire, rarely serrulate, recurved to revolute, without a border; laminal cells rectangular, bulging, 45–110 μm long, 20–45 μm wide in apical half, 75–180 μm long, 20–40 μm wide in basal half. Setae 3–14 mm long, pale brown, smooth. Capsules fusiform, vertical, sometimes slightly inclined, straight to somewhat curved due to curvature of neck, (2–) 2.5–5 (–8) mm long, green-brown when fresh, becoming dark brown or black on drying. Operculum conic or more rarely nearly flat, to 0.3 mm long. Peristome teeth 8, recurved when dry.