Plants slender, forming loose mats, green to yellow-green; terricolous. Stems 10-30 mm long, ascending, rarely branched, papillose; in section round, central strand small, inner cortical cells in 3-4 rows, large, outer cortical cells in 2 rows, small, incrassate, cells of outer row with a single sharp papilla. Leaves distant, erect-spreading to flexuose dry, erect-spreading wet; ovate to lanceolate or triangular, short-acuminate to subulate, 0.8-1.8 mm long; base not sheathing; margins plane, entire; in section lamina bistratose in patches between costa and margin, cells of similar size, dorsal cells weakly bulging. Costa percurrent, ventral superficial cells long-rectangular, smooth, dorsal superficial cells rectangular, rough; in section guide cells 6, ventral cells in 2 rows, incrassate, dorsal cells in 2-3 rows, incrassate, dorsal surface cells slightly elongate vertically, bulging. Laminal cells quadrate, rectangular or triangular, thin-walled, smooth or mammillose, 3-4 rows of cells at insertion slightly larger, rectangular to rhomboidal. Sporophyte unknown.
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