Barbula indica Sprengel in Steudel, 1824

Plants greenish-brown, up to 10 mm long, more brownish below, lower part felted with rhizoids, branches equally high; leaves ovate-oblong to spathulate with incurved margins, arranged spirally around the stem, acuminate, margin revolute, entire; costa strong, light green, shortly excurrent; upper cells small, rounded, 5-8 µm diagonally, thick walled, with horse-shoe-shaped mamillae, basal cells somewhat widened and elongated, 25 x 10 µm, quadrate to rectangular, hyaline, smooth; seta smooh, long, up to 1.5 cm long, yellowish orange; capsule erect, yellowish orange, cylindrical, calyptra beaked; spores rounded.

India (Kerala), China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Colombia, Mexico, Africa and America.