Plants erect, yellowish green, in tufts. Stems 3-15 mm, radiculose. Leaves erect-patent when wet, appressed when dry, 1.8-2.3 mm, 5-8 times as long as wide, lanceolate, gradually contracted, margins entire, only slightly denticulate at the extreme apex; costa filling 1/2-2/3 of the leaf base, 155 µm wide and indistinctly delimited at base, filling most parts of the leaf apex, excurrent, in transverse section with large adaxial and abaxial hyalocysts, a median band of stereids and 2-4 stereids adaxially; alar cells hyaline or brownish, often 2-stratose, slightly inflated; basal laminal cells in about 6 rows, rectangular, 15-40 × 10-16 µm, narrower at margins; distal laminal cells rectangular, 13-30 × 4-12 µm.
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