Plants soft, at stem and branch apices yellow-green, bright green, or dark metallic red, becoming reddish brown, maroon-red, reddish black, or brownish black in older extremities. Stems to 6 cm, extremities usually denuded, irregularly branched; hyalodermis absent, epidermal cells small, walls thick, similar to subadjacent cortical cells, central strand poorly developed or absent. Leaves loosely imbricate or falcate-imbricate, sometimes slightly complanate, straight or falcate-secund, little different when dry or moist, narrowly ovate, ovate, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, shallowly concave in broad leaves to deeply so in narrower leaves, (0.9-)1-1.5(-2) × (0.3-)0.5-0.7(-0.8) mm; margins plane, not recurved at apex, entire, usually entire at apex, at least some leaves with margins slightly denticulate or serrulate in abruptly acute apex; apex gradually to abruptly acute to slightly acuminate tip, sometimes obtuse; costa double, short, slender, ecostate, or rarely single and slender; alar cells quadrate, short-rectangular, or irregular, , region irregular, nearly undifferentiated, or differentiated; basal laminal cells shorter, wider than medial cells; medial cells long, linear-flexuose, (40-)45-80(-114) × (4-)5-6(-7) µm; apical cells shorter; marginal cells rarely longer than 55µm. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial inner leaves ovate-lanceolate to long triangular-lanceolate, . Seta yellowish red to red, 1.3-2.2 cm. Capsule with endostome cilia 1-3.
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