Plants medium to large, in loose cushions, yellow-green; terricolous or corticolous. Stems 10-25 mm tall, infrequently branched, mainly below, lower stem covered with reddish tomentum; in section subround to elliptical, central strand small or large, inner cortical cells in 4-6 rows, medium-sized, incrassate, yellowish, outer cortical cells substereids, in 2-4 rows, smaller, reddish. Leaves crowded, frequently falcate, erect to contorted dry, erect-spreading wet, linear-lanceolate, subulate, 4-7 mm long; base subauriculate; margins erect to incurved, entire below, serrate in upper subula. Costa ? width of leaf base, percurrent; in proximal section guide cells 14-20, ventral stereid band small, in single layer, centred, exposing 3-4 guide cells on either side, dorsal stereids in small groups, 2-3 cells each, stereid groups separated by larger, incrassate cells; in distal section ventral stereid band 1 layer thick, centred, exposing 1-2 guide cells on either side, dorsal cells incrassate or substereids, dorsal surface with single cell lamellae. Upper laminal cells rounded, quadrate to short-rectangular or rhomboidal, thickened, unpitted; basal cells rectangular, strongly thickened, sometimes irregularly so, almost smooth to strongly pitted; alar cells enlarged, quadrate, thin-walled, hyaline to reddish. Sporophyte not seen.
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