Philonotis globosa (Müll.Hal.) D.G.Griffin & W.R.Buck

Plants small, loosely caespitose or forming turfs, green to yellow-green; terricolous or saxicolous. Stems erect, (2-)4-8(-10) mm high, branching by subperichaetial innovations, weakly tomentose below; in section round, central strand large, innner cortical cells in 2-4 rows, large and thin-walled, but outer row smaller, outer cortical cells in 1-2 rows, stereids or substereids, reddish, epidermal cells medium-sized, thin-walled, frequently collapsed or eroded producing fluted stem. Leaves somewhat crowded, appressed to erect dry, erect-spreading wet; narrowly lanceolate or occasionally ovate-acuminate, 0.8-1.4 mm long; apex acuminate; margins plane to weakly reflexed, sharply serrate above. Costa short excurrent as serrate awn or occasionally only percurrent, filling acumen; in section rounded, bulging dorsally, guide cells 2, incrassate, ventral cells 2, in single layer, similar to guide cells, weakly thickened, dorsal stereid band 1-2 cells thick, frequently with distinct gap below guide cells, dorsal surface cells similar to ventral cells. Laminal cells linear-rectangular, 8-10:1, incrassate, distinctly prorate in upper leaf; basal cells in distinct group, rectangular, 2-4:1, slightly bulging, weakly thickened. Synoicous. Perichaetia terminal or lateral through innovation; leaves ovate to short-oblong, acuminate, to 2 mm long, laminal cells rectangular. Seta 7-12 mm long, reddish yellow; capsule erect, symmetrical, urn globose, 1.5-2.0 mm long, ± smooth, little altered to wrinkled dry, mouth small; exothecial cells oblong-hexagonal, thin-walled, becoming quadrate above, 3-4 rows at mouth transversely rectangular; stomata numerous at base of urn, phaneropore; peristome absent, frequently with white fringe in mouth; operculum planoconvex; calyptra not seen; spores subround to reniform, 37-42 µm, weakly papillose, yellow-brown.