Species: Pterogonium gracile

Plants in loose patches or mats, dark green to brownish below. Primary stems creeping, secondary stems ascending, the branches numerous, turned to one side, strongly julaceous, often flagelliform. Leaves closely imbricate when dry, erect-spreading when moist, cordate-ovate, acute to acuminate, concave, slightly decurrent; margins sharply serrate at apex, incurved at base, plane above; costa wanting or short and double. Dioicous, the perigonia and perichaetia on secondary stems and branches. Seta smooth. Capsule brown, erect and radially symmetric to slightly zygomorphic, smooth to somewhat wrinkled when dry (Lawton 1971).