Plants medium-sized, dark red to red-green, rarely green, sometimes purple-black. Stems 2-4(-5) cm, strongly julaceous, with metallic sheen, older stem sometimes densely radiculose. Leaves rigid, strongly imbricate when dry, purple-red to brown-red, rarely dull olive green, ovate, strongly concave, (1-)2-3 mm; base not or weakly decurrent; margins plane throughout or rarely revolute proximally, entire to finely serrulate distally, limbidium absent; apex rounded-obtuse to broadly acute, cucullate; costa red-brown to brown, percurrent, awn absent; basal laminal cells somewhat inflated, pigmented, in 2 or 3 rows; proximal cells abruptly quadrate, with scattered short-rectangular cells, 1-2:1; medial and distal cells elongate-rhomboidal, (40-)50-60 × (10-)12-14µm, 4-6:1, walls strongly incrassate, arranged in rows oblique to costa at 30-45± angle. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Seta ± straight to flexuose, red, red-brown, or purple. Capsule inclined to nutant, red-purple, pyriform, 2-4(-5) mm, neck long. Spores 14-18µm, smooth to papillose, yellow-brown.
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