Plants medium-sized, caespitose, light green to dark green, glossy; terricolous, saxicolous or corticolous. Stems 10-30 mm long, irregularly branched, radiculose below; in section subround, central strand very small, inner cortical cells large, in 3-4 rows, weakly thickened, outer cortical cells stereids, in 2 rows, reddish. Leaves appressed and ± curved dry, erect-spreading wet; ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 mm long; apex acute, cuspidate; margins plane, serrate above mid-leaf. Costa short-excurrent; in section subround, guide cells 4-6, strongly thickened, ventral stereid band 1 cell thick, ventral surface cells substereids, dorsal stereid band 2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells substereids. Laminal cells variable in size and shape, rounded to subquadrate, incrassate, mostly 1:1, smooth; basal cells slightly larger, rounded-rectangular, thickened. Gemmae infrequently produced, axillary in upper leaves and at apex, filamentous, 12-14 cells long, yellow-brown. Sporophyte not known from southern Africa.
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