Plants medium-sized to large, loosely caespitose, yellow-green, brownish below; terricolous. Stems 30-50 mm high, irregularly branched, occasionally with flagellate branches, lower stems densely tomentose, reddish; in section elliptical, central strand small, inner cortical cells in 7-8 rows, thin-walled, red-yellow, becoming incrassate toward outside, outer cortical cells in 2-3 rows, stereids, reddish, epidermal cells thin-walled, fragile, stem quickly fluted. Leaves crowded, spreading to reflexed and contorted or twisted dry, widespreading to squarrose wet; elliptical to broadly ovate, 4-5 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm wide; apex acute; base plicate; margins plane, serrulate to serrate above mid-leaf. Costa very narrow, short-excurrent; superficial cells rectangular, smooth, incrassate; in section elliptical, guide cells 4, incrassate, ventral stereid band 1 cell thick, exposed, dorsal stereid band 1-2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells undifferentiated. Laminal cells long-rectangular, 5-9:1, strongly and irregularly incrassate, porose, lumens flexuose, papillae low, at proximal ends; marginal cells more evenly thickened; basal cells not distinct, smooth; alar cells forming small group, 10-12 cells extending up margins by 5 cells wide below, quadrate to short-rectangular, irregularly thickened, porose. Sporophyte not known.
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