Plants medium-sized to large, loosely caespitose, green or reddish green above, brown or red-brown below; terricolous or on charcoal. Stems to 20 mm tall, branching by innovations, tomentose below; rhizoids reddish brown, coarsely papillose, tubers large, (250-)350-550(-750) µm, yellow-brown. Leaves comose, frequently in successive comal tufts, larger above, erect or slightly twisted dry, erect-spreading and frequently rosulate wet; oblong to oblong-spathulate, 3.0-4.5 mm long; apex acute; margins plane above, recurved in lower 3/4 to 2/3, dentate above; border 4-8 cells wide, cells sinuate, incrassate. Costa mucronate to shortly excurrent, denticulate above, frequently orange below; in section subround to round, laminal insertion ventral, ventral surface cells present, dorsal stereid band strong, stereids in 3-5 rows, dorsal surface cells incrassate, hydroids present between stereid band and guide cells. Upper laminal cells long-rhomboidal, frequently incrassate, pitted, (45-)52-73(-83) µm long, 12-19 µm wide, gradually narrowed towards border; basal cells rectangular, pitted, reddish or orange below. Filamentous gemmae absent. Sporophytes not seen.
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