Braunia secunda (Hook.) Bruch & Schimp.

Plants large, forming extensive tufts, green to yellow-green; saxicolous or corticolous. Stems suberect, 20-70 mm long, branching irregular; in section round, central strand absent, inner cortical cells thick-walled, yellow, in 5-7 rows, outer cortical cells smaller, thick-walled, red-brown, in 2 or 3 rows; pseudoparaphyllia absent. Leaves evenly spaced, patent to widespreading wet, weakly appressed dry, plicate; broadly elliptical to ovate-lanceolate, 2.0-2.5 mm long; acute to acuminate; apex frequently hyaline and papillose, especially at stem tips; base weakly decurrent; margins narrowly recurved frequently throughout, entire below, sometimes toothed at apex; ecostate. Upper laminal cells quadrate to rectangular, frequently irregular, homogeneous, 7-16 µm long, 6-8 µm wide, walls incrassate, papillose on both surfaces, frequently almost smooth above; papillae numerous, low, scattered; basal cells quadrate to short rectangular marginally, linear and forming distinct group internally, 60-100 µm long, 8-12 µm wide, yellowish, walls thickened, weakly pitted, papillose, papillae low, seriate; alar cells not strongly differentiated. Perigonial leaves ovate-acute, 1.0-1.2 mm long. Perichaetial leaves oblong-acuminate, 3 mm long; margins entire; leaf cells quadrate to short rectangular above, papillose, rectangular to linear below, smooth, incrassate and pitted. Seta 10-15 mm long, yellow-brown, smooth. Capsule exserted, ± erect, gymnostomous, cylindrical, 2.0-3.5 mm long, smooth, yellow-brown, neck shorter than urn; exothecial cells rounded, quadrate to oblong, walls thickened, cells at mouth darker, quadrate, thickened, neck cells not differentiated; stomata numerous on neck, phaneropore. Operculum short-or long-beaked, curved, 1 mm long. Calyptra cucullate. Spores angular, 22-27 µm, papillose, brownish green.