Plants medium-sized to large, loosely caespitose, yellow-green; saxicolous. Stems 20-50 mm high, irregularly branched, weakly tomentose below; in section round, central strand present, inner cortical cells in 3-4 rows, large, thin-walled, outer cortical cells in 1-2 rows, smaller, incrassate, yellowish brown, epidermal cells somewhat fragile. Leaves appressed-incurved to spreading and somewhat contorted dry, erect-spreading wet; broadly ovate-acuminate, 2.5-3.0 mm long; margins plane, serrate above mid-leaf, bordered by 4-8 rows of narrow, incrassate cells, in section border cells rounded, smaller than laminal cells. Costa short-excurrent as toothed apiculus, ventral and dorsal superficial cells long-rectangular, ± flexuose, incrassate, smooth; in section elliptical, guide cells 4, incrassate, ventral cells in single row, smaller than guide cells, incrassate, dorsal stereid band small, 2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells substereids. Laminal cells rectangular to oblong-rhomboidal, bulging, weakly thickened, 2-5:1, smooth; marginal cells in 4-8 rows, linear, 15-25:1, incrassate, forming distinct border; basal cells not differentiated; alar cells in single row of 4-5 enlarged cells, broadly rectangular, becoming narrower above and merging with border. Sporophyte not known.
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