Plants green to glossy green. Stems to 2 cm, central strand present. Stem leaves catenulate-incurved when dry, spreading and weakly keeled when moist, monomorphic, ovate-lanceolate, adaxially grooved in distal third, 0.9-1.1 mm, base often but not always sharply differentiated in shape, ovate, margins narrowly to broadly recurved in proximal 1/3-1/2, entire, apex narrowly acute, abruptly acuminate, not fragile; costa percurrent to very shortly excurrent, tapering, widened pad of cells absent, adaxial costal cells elongate, 4 cells wide at mid leaf, guide cells in 1 layer; basal laminal cells little differentiated, quadrate or very short-rectangular, walls thickened and lumens usually oval; distal laminal cells 7-9(-12) µm wide, 1:1, papillae absent to low, simple, lumens subquadrate to oval, walls irregularly thickened, convex on both sides, 1-stratose. Specialized asexual reproduction by multicellular spheric gemmae in leaf axils. Sexual condition sterile in range of flora. Sporophytes not seen. Distal laminal KOH reaction yellow-or orange-brown.
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