Anomobryum drakensbergense Van Rooy

Plants small to medium-sized, caespitose, yellowish green to brownish above, yellow-brown to brown below; saxicolous or terricolous. Stems to 20 mm tall, branching by forks or subperichaetial innovations, frequently tomentose below, yellowish green or reddish brown to brown; in section round, central strand of thin-walled cells present, inner cortical cells in 2-4 rows, thin-walled, outer cortical cells 1-2 rows, thin-walled to incrassate. Leaves ± equidistant, about equal in size or subperichaetial leaves larger, imbricate, frequently concave, erect when dry, erect-spreading when wet; shortly oblong-acute or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, (0.5-)0.6-1.5 mm long; apex acute; margins plane or rarely recurved, entire; border absent. Costa percurrent or occasionally mucronate, generally yellow, frequently reddish below; in section subround to round, laminal insertion ventral, ventral surface cells present, guide cells incrassate, dorsal stereid band strong, dorsal surface cells incrassate. Upper laminal cells short-rhomboidal to linear-rhomboidal, occasionally vermicular, frequently incrassate, (25-)35-63(-85) µm long, 7-19 µm wide; basal laminal cells frequently reddish, quadrate. Dioicous. Perichaetia terminal but quickly overgrown by innovations; leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, upper laminal cells vermicular. Seta 10-16 mm long, yellowish red or reddish brown; capsule pyriform, inclined to horizontal, yellowish to reddish or brown, frequently contracted below mouth when dry, urn 1.0-1.8 mm long, neck 0.5-1.5 mm long, wrinkled when dry; exothecial cells irregularly rectangular to quadrate, incrassate, smaller at mouth; stomata present on neck, phaneropore; annulus differentiated; peristome teeth narrowly oblong-acuminate, frequently blunt and irregular in outline, 190-300 µm long, bordered, trabeculate, yellowish to reddish, frequently hyaline above, minutely papillose, endostome segments broad below, tapering above, keeled, broadly perforated, yellowish to hyaline, cilia rudimentary, basal membrane high, yellow, minutely papillose; operculum conic, blunt to mucronate; calyptra cucullate; spores 12-18 µm, granulose.