Plants green or yellow-green. Stems 0.2-1 cm, gemmiform to evenly foliate. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, weakly con-cave, 0.5-1.5(-2) mm; margins plane to revolute proximally; apex acute to acuminate; costa percurrent to rarely short-excurrent; proximal laminal cells abruptly quadrate to short-rectangular, 1-2:1; medial and distal cells 8-12 (-16) µm wide, 3-4:1. Specialized asexual reproduction by leaf axil bulbils, bulbils (1-)5-25 per axil, conic, 200-450 µm, primordia distinct, broad, leaflike, obtuse, arising from distal 1/3 of bulbil. Capsule nutant, purple-red at maturity, 1-3 mm; hypophysis thickened, not inflated, not or weakly rugose; peristome well developed; endostome not adherent to exostome, basal membrane high, segments well developed, perforations ovate, cilia long, appendiculate.
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