Plants medium-sized and gracile to fairly large, olivaceous to green in the distal part, brown to blackish brown proximally. Stems (2-)4-6(-11) cm, ascending to erect, mostly unbranched, rarely irregularly sparingly or pinnately branched. Leaves imbricate and closely appressed on drying, erect-spreading on wetting, straight, ovate-lanceolate to elliptical, 1.9-2.8 × 0.9-1.3 mm; margins broadly recurved from base to apex; gradually tapering towards the apex, mostly terminated with a hyaline awn, awn mostly short and broad, less often long and narrow, slightly flexuose, irregularly denticulate and spinulose, papillose proximally, with narrow but fairly tall and irregularly arranged papillae on the abaxial side, epapillose or nearly so in the distal part; basal laminal cells elongate, 40-70 × 5-7 µm, epapillose or nearly so in 2-4 cell rows at the insertion, with thick and nodulose longitudinal walls; alar cells hyaline, forming small to medium-sized, rounded and somewhat inflated group of 2-4 cell rows; supra-alar cells not sinuose, thick-walled, forming a pellucid marginal border, consisting of to 10(-20) cells; medial and distal laminal cells rectangular, 15-25 × 7-12 µm, distinctly papillose. Sterile.
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