Plants small, yellowish to brownish, in dense mats. Stems creeping, to 10 mm long; branches often microphyllous and terete, bearing clusters of filamentous propagules distally. Leaves erect, ovate to ovate-oblong, less than 1 mm long, concave, obtuse, acute to short acuminate (specially the stem leaves); margins serrulate to base. Laminal cells narrowly fusiform to elongate, 20-45 µm long; alar cells quadrate, thick-walled, in homogenous cluster. Autoicous. Perigonial leaves small, ovate. Perichaetial leaves oblong lanceolate, 1-1.25 mm long, acuminate, with strongly serrate margins. Sporophyte not seen.
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