Plants small to medium, in cushions, glaucous-green, tan below; terricolous or corticolous. Stems 10-20 mm tall, irregularly branched below; in section round, central strand present, inner cortical cells in 4-5 rows, incrassate, outer cortical cells in 2 rows, smaller, red-brown. Leaves crowded, ± contorted dry, spreading to frequently falcate wet; elliptical, abruptly acuminate, 7-10 mm long; lamina narrow, unistratose; base scarcely differentiated; margins entire, plane below, inrolled above. Costa broad; in section chlorocysts small, rhomboidal, at base ventral leucocysts in 1 row medianly, 1(-2) row(s) laterally, dorsal leucocysts in 1 row medianly, 2-3 rows laterally, in upper proximal and distal sections ventral and dorsal leucocysts in single layers. Upper laminal cells in 6-7 rows on either side of costa, irregularly rectangular to fusiform, very thin-walled, pitted, hyaline. Sporophyte not known.
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