Plants medium-sized, in moderately loose to dense tufts, light green or yellowish to brownish. Stems 2.5-7 cm, creeping to dendroid-arching, straight to curved, terete-foliate, julaceous, occasionally regularly pinnate, branches to 6 mm, straight to slightly curved, terete-to complanate-foliate. Stem leaves erect, or patent and twisted to contorted, broadly ovate-triangular, broadest at 1/7 leaf length or below, slightly plicate, often shorter than broad, 0.7-1.2 × 0.8-1.2 mm; base broadly long-decurrent; margins serrulate to near base; apex broadly acute to rounded-truncate and short-apiculate, ; costa to 40-70% leaf length, weak, terminal abaxial spine absent; alar cells subquadrate to short-rectangular, to 45 × 25 µm, walls moderately thin, region of 5-7 × 8-14 cells, pellucid, reaching from margin 50-80% distance to costa, abruptly differentiated; laminal cells 15-40 × 6-12 µm, slightly prorate to prorate-papillose on abaxial surface; basal cells to 15 µm wide, region in 2 or 3 rows. Sporophytes unknown in North America.
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