Plants small to medium-sized, forming cushions, light green to yellow-green, ± glossy; corticolous. Stems (2-)5-10 mm long, densely matted below with red-brown tomentum; in section cortical cells in 4-5 rows. Leaves crowded, weakly concave, appressed with flexuose awns wet or dry; ovate to oval, 0.7-1.0(1.4) mm long; apex acute, chlorophyllous; margins plane, entire to weakly serrate at apex. Costa long-excurrent, awn hyaline, weakly toothed, 0.6-0.8 mm long; in section bulging dorsally, ventral cells 2, in single layer, large, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band 4-5 cells thick, frequently with hydroids below ventral cells, dorsal surface cells substereids or incrassate. Upper laminal cells mostly 3-4: 1, oblong-hexagonal to oblong-rhomboidal, thin-walled, 50-62(-75) µm long, 15-20(-25) µm wide; marginal cells smaller, rectangular to quadrate above, weakly thickened, chlorophyllous; basal cells moderately differentiated, rectangular to quadrate. Propagulae bud-like, axillary or on tomentum. Sporophyte not known from southern Africa.
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