Plants coarse, stiff, bright yellow-green, dull olive green, dirty yellow, or yellow-brown, with or without rusty mottling. Stems to 7 cm, leafy throughout or commonly denuded basally, irregularly branched; hyalodermis absent, epidermal cells small, walls thick, similar to subadjacent cortical cells, central strand strong. Leaves often secund, straight, shrinking, spreading, or contorted and twisted to the left when dry, appressed-imbricate and sometimes secund or spreading and somewhat contorted when moist, very broadly ovate, oval, orbicular, or less often ovate, plane or shallowly concave, (0.8-)1.1-1.7(-2.2) × (0.6-)0.8-1.3(-1.7) mm; margins plane or narrowly recurved basally, sometimes involute when dry, usually entire, rarely denticulate; apex acute, obtuse, or short-apiculate; costa double, short, often to mid leaf, sometimes single and 2-fid to beyond mid leaf; alar cells quadrate, short-rectangular, or irregular, , region clearly differentiated, irregular; basal laminal cells wider, longer, ; medial cells short-to long-fusiform or linear-flexuose, (26-)30-70(-90) × (3-)5-7(-9) µm; apical cells shorter; marginal cells rarely longer than 55 µm. Sexual condition autoicous; . Seta yellowish red, red, or maroon, 0.9-2.4 cm. Capsule with endostome cilia 1-3.
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