Leaves 2-2.5 mm; margins broadly or narrowly recurved in basal 1/4 or plane on one or both sides, erect to incurved in acumen, entire in apex; apex erect when dry, broad, hyaline, acumen broad-based, 1/5-2/5 (-1/2) leaf length, channeled to tubular, extreme apex flat or sometimes twisted; medial and distal laminal cells with papillae 1 (or 2), large, stalked, strongly, regularly branched, ; laminal cells in hyaline area with papillae low, simple at base, in longitudinal lines on cell lumina; apical cell long-linear, sharply pointed, (80-)110-125(-150) µm, multipapillose with papillae minute, simple, scattered on lumina and margins, or sometimes smooth. Perichaetia with leaves broadly channeled to involute, margins entire. Vaginula sparsely pilose. Calyptra naked to sparsely pilose.