Plants large, in loose tufts, yellowish to light green; corticolous or saxicolous. Stems erect, 50-60 mm tall, occasionally branched; in section central strand absent, inner cortical cells in 5-8 rows, small, incrassate, outer cortical cells in 2-3 rows of stereids or substereids, reddish. Leaves erect with tortuous tips dry, erect spreading wet; ovate-subulate, 3.5-5.0 mm long; apex weakly toothed; margins plane, entire to serrate above, bordered throughout by narrow, hyaline cells, 2-6 cells wide below, 1-2 cells wide in subula. Costa narrow, ending in apex or rarely short-excurrent; in section guide cells 4, thickened, ventral and dorsal stereid band 2 cells thick, occasionally some cells substereids, surface cells undifferentiated. Laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, generally thickened, extending to leaf base juxtacostally, bulging dorsally, with several low papillae over lumen, ventral surface flat, smooth; intermediate cells rectangular to long-rectangular, smooth; alar cells distinct, large, quadrate to short-rectangular, yellowish brown, extending across entire leaf base, quadrate near costa. Immature perichaetial leaves similar to vegetative leaves, papillose leaf cells not reaching leaf base. Sporophyte not known.
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