Plants fairly large, rather coarse, densely caespitose, olive green distally, brownish or blackish proximally. Stems erect-ascending, 2-5 cm, moderately, irregularly branched. Leaves loosely appressed, spirally twisted around the stem or somewhat contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist, lanceolate, (2-)2.3-2.7(-2.9) × 0.5-0.6 mm, muticous or with a short, to 0.4 mm, hyaline, bluntly denticulate to crenulate hair-point; margins broadly recurved to mid-leaf or 3/4 way up the leaf on one side, plane or narrowly recurved in the broadest part on the other side, variously 1-2-stratose in 1 cell row distally; costa percurrent, 80-90 µm wide basally, 55-75 µm wide distally, strongly convex on the abaxial side, 3-stratose in the base with 4(-5) enlarged adaxial cells, 3-4-stratose in the middle with 3-4 large adaxial cells and 2-3-stratose distally with 2 adaxial cells; laminal cells 1-stratose with occasional 2-stratose patched near the apex, smooth or slightly pseudopapillose; distal and median cells rectangular, 25-50 × 10-12 µm, strongly sinuose-nodulose and thick-walled; basal cells long-rectangular to linear, 50-90 × 10-12 µm, with strongly porose and incrassate lateral walls, to 7 µm thick; alar cells undifferentiated; basal marginal cells esinuose, moderately thick-walled, long-rectangular to linear, 50-100 × 5-8 µm, hyaline, forming a transparent border extending to the broadest part of the leaf. Sterile.
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