Plants slender, forming intertwining tufts, green; terricolous. Stems erect, 5-10 mm high, simple, with leaves distant; in section without central strand, inner cortex of large, thin-walled cells, outer cortical cells in 2-3 rows, small, incrassate, reddish, margin fluted. Leaves patent, oval-acute to ovate-acuminate, 0.5-1.0 mm long; margins entire, recurved below. Costa percurrent, reflexed at tip of oval-acute leaves; in section guide cells 4, large, ventral cells incrassate, dorsal substereid band in single layer, dorsal surface cells incrassate. Laminal cells quadrate to rectangular, frequently weakly prorate; basal cells larger, rectangular. Sporophytes have not been found; perichaetial leaves described as abruptly linear-subulate from a short-oval, sheathing base, one or two rows of marginal cells of the leaf base are narrower and more or less differentiated from marginal cells, the basal cells are faintly yellow-orange, and the lowermost row of basal cells is slightly inflated. The costa has guide cells and stereid cells in transection.
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