Mielichhoferia subnuda Sim

Plants small, loosely caespitose, yellow-green to light green or brownish; terricolous. Stems 2-5 mm tall, infrequently branched; in section round, central strand very small, inner cortex in 2-3 rows, cells thin-walled, outer cortex in 1-2 rows, cells with inner walls strongly thickened and reddish. Leaves appressed dry, patent wet, weakly concave; roadly elliptical, ovate or shortly oblong-acute, (0.3-)0.6-1.0 mm long; apex subacute, mucronate; margins plane or occasionally recurved below, entire. Costa ending below apex to mucronate or rarely cuspidate; in section rounded, bulging dorsally, guide cells not differentiated, ventral cells in single row, 2-4, cells large, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band 3-4 cells thick, occasionally substereids, dorsal surface cells incrassate. Upper laminal cells mostly 3-6:1, rhomboidal to elongate-rhomboidal, thin-walled, 37-83 µm long, 9-18 µm wide; basal cells quadrate to short rectangular, not differentiated in some leaves. Propagulae bud-like, axillary, 190-300 µm long. ?Dioicous. Perichaetia lateral through sub-perichaetial innovation, leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate. Seta erect, 5-9 mm long, yellowish, red or red-brown; capsules ± erect to inclined, shortly pyriform or sub globose, (0.6-)1.0-1.5 mm long, yellow-brown, red or red-brown, neck short, to 0.5 mm; exothecial cells quadrate to rectangular, rhomboidal or angular, incrassate, 2-3 rows at mouth smaller, quadrate; stomata numerous on neck and lower urn, phaneropore; annulus differentiated; peristome double, frequently appearing single, exostome teeth rudimentary, snort and blunt, rarely visible above annulus, endostome yellowish, rudimentary as short, smooth basal membrane at mouth, fragile, quickly broken away, occasionally with short, irregular segments; operculum convex; spores round, 16-20 µm, minutely papillose, yellow-brown.