Synoicous. Plants short, 5–10 mm tall, densely caespitose, bright green above, brownish below. Stems with a comparatively large central strand, lacking a hyalodermis. Rhizoids sparse, at base only, slightly papillose, dark red-brown. Leaves erect, closely appressed when dry, narrowly lanceolate, without a sheathing base, 1.5–4.0 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide; margin narrowly recurved, denticulate (single or double teeth) by means of differentiated enlarged cells, bistratose; costa strong, ±prominent abaxially, with a small abaxial stereid band and a smaller adaxial band; axillary hairs c. 25 µm long, with 2 short basal cells with pigmented cross-walls and 1 larger globose hyaline cell; lamina mainly unistratose with occasional bistratose patches, with upper cells to 45 × 10 µm, papillose from prorate cell ends; lower lamina unistratose, with cells hyaline, smooth, elongate, to 75 × 12.5 µm, with 3–5 weakly defined rows of shorter quadrate cells at the alar margin.

Setae c. 8 mm long. Capsules erect, subglobose to ovoid, c. 0.8–1.3 mm long and 0.6–0.8 mm wide, shallowly sulcate when dry; exothecial cells polygonal, isodiametric, with trigones. Peristome of short yellowish exostome teeth, with or without a rudimentary endostome. Spores subglobose, 30–35 µm diameter, pale reddish brown, coarsely and irregularly verrucose.

Endemic.

Endemic to South Australia and Victoria. Either rare or undercollected.

Grows on soil of banks in sclerophyll forest and beside streams, usually in small colonies.

Bartramia nothostricta Catches., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 45: 621 (1987). Type: Waterfall Gully, S.A., 16 Nov. 1952, D.G.Catcheside 52.344; holo: AD.

Misapplication

[Bartramia stricta auct. non Brid.: D.G.Catcheside, Mosses of South Australia 282 (1980)]

S.A.: Alligator Gorge, Flinders Range, D.G.Catcheside 83.13 (AD); Waterfall Gully, R.D.Seppelt 0117 (HO).

Vic.: Mt Tarrengower, I.G.Stone 14569 (AD, MEL).

D.G.Catcheside, Mosses of South Australia fig. 168 (1980), as B. stricta; D.G.Catcheside, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 619, fig. 1e, f (1987).

Bell, G.H. (2012). Australian Mosses Online. 42. Bartramiaceae: Bartramia. http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/Mosses_online/Bartramiaceae_Bartramia.pdf 

First published as:  Bell, G.H. (2006). Bartramia in Bartramiaceae, Flora of Australia Volume 51. (Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra & CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne).