Species: Barbula eustegia

Mosses small, in loose or dense yellowish green tufts or sods. Stems very short. Leaves incurved and infolded, strongly twisted and contorted, brittle and easily broken when dry, spreading to recurved when moist, soft and tender, oblong-ligulate to linear or sometimes linear-lanceolate, canaliculate, broadly obtuse to abruptly acute and often shortly recurved at the tip; margins finely crenulate, plane to slightly revolute; costa usually pale, papillose on the back. Perichaetial leaves large and convolute-clasping, the inner ones ecostate and terminating in an abrupt apiculus, the outer leaves costate with less abruptly narrowed, but longer, upper portions. Seta yellowish, twisted to the left when dry; capsule erect, ovate-oblong, narrowed at the mouth, operculum long rostrate, when dry; teeth often nearly as long as the urn, dark reddish, twisted in 2-3 turns, finely papillose (Flowers 1973).