Plants green to reddish green. Stems to 1.5 cm, central strand present. Stem leaves erect-appressed when dry, spreading and not keeled when moist, monomorphic, lanceolate, adax-ially weakly concave across leaf, 0.7-1.1 mm (absent tip) to 2 mm whole, base scarcely differentiated in shape, margins recurved at mid leaf, entire, apex thickened, long-cylindric to clavate, usually soon deciduous, usually absent in mature leaves; costa excurrent, excurrency absent in mature leaves, not much widened or tapering at mid leaf but swollen in excurrency, pad of cells absent, adaxial costal cells quadrate, 4-6 cells wide at mid leaf, guide cells in 2 layers; basal laminal cells differentiated medially, walls thin; distal laminal cells 8-10 µm wide, 1:1, papillae essentially absent, lumens angular, walls thin, weakly convex on both sides, 1-stratose except in deciduous apex. Specialized asexual reproduction by the deciduous leaf apex. Sexual condition and sporophytes unknown. Distal lamina KOH color reaction reddish orange.
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