Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs

Plants medium-sized to large, not turgid, green, brownish, variegated green and red, or rarely almost entirely red. Stems ± pinnate; shoot apices often hooked. Stem leaves with red transverse sub-basal zone or sometimes larger parts of leaf red, ovate, concave, strongly or sometimes slightly plicate, 0.6-1.1 mm wide; base ± erect, slightly constricted at insertion; apex short-or long-acuminate.