Plants large to robust, in cushions, glaucous-green; saxicolous. Steins 10-40 mm tall, irregularly branched below; in section round, central strand absent, inner cortical cells medium-sized, yellowish, outer cortical cells in 1-2 rows, slightly smaller, red-brown. Leaves appressed dry, erect-spreading wet, broadly lanceolate to oblong, 5.0-7.5 mm long, concave; lamina narrow, unistratose; apex acuminate; base scarcely differentiated, rounded; margins entire, broadly incurved above. Costa broad; in proximal section chlorocysts small, rhomboidal, ventral leucocysts in 2 layers, infrequently small areas with 3 layers, dorsal leucocysts in 2(-3) layers; in distal section chlorocysts rhomboidal, ventral leucocysts in 2(-3) layers, narrowing to 1 layer marginally, dorsal leucocysts in 3(-4) layers, abruptly narrowing at margin. Upper laminal cells in 6-9 rows on either side of costa, rectangular, thin-walled, pitted; marginal cells in 2-3 rows, linear, hyaline, extending to apex. Sporophyte not known in Southern Africa.
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