Plants gregarious or tufted, dark-green to yellowish brown, uncinate-curved at tips when dry, to 10 mm. Leaves dimorphic, the vegetative 3-4 mm; distal lamina lanceolate; margins thickened and toothed distally; costa in cross section showing ad-and abaxial bands of stereid cells; medial cells obscure, 5-6 µm, bulging adaxially, minutely papillose abaxially; teniolae prominent at leaf shoulders and above; cancellinae ending in acute angles distally, adaxial cells smooth distally; gemmiferous leaves with constricted apices consisting of the costa with narrowly revolute marginal laminae, bearing gemmae only on adaxial surface of apex.