Stem leaves erect, concave, lamina juxtacostally 2-stratose, becoming 1-stratose towards margin; proximal leaves minute, bract-like, narrowly deltoid, acuminate, 0.53-0.85 × 0.15-0.25 mm, entire; distal stem leaves ovate to lanceolate, acuminate to subulate, 1.05-1.75 × 0.2-0.38 mm, entire; costa broad, percurrent to excurrent. Sexual condition paroicous, antheridia naked in the distal leaf axils just proximal to the perichaetium. Perichaetial leaves oblong to obovate-lanceolate proximally, carinate-acuminate distally, gradually narrowed to a broad, channeled to subtubulose acumen which is generally shorter than the leaf base, 1.58-2.63 × 0.43-0.58 mm, margins serrulate to serrate, erect to incurved distally, coarsely and irregularly to distinctly jaggedly toothed at shoulder; lamina plicate to pleated; basal cells oblong to rectangular; median cells subquadrate to short-rectangular; distal cells at shoulder longer, long-rhomboidal to curved linear; costa excurrent with a conduplicate or canaliculate awn, broad, smooth on back, indistinct at mid leaf, confluent with the juxtacostal part of lamina, filling most of the acumen; transverse section of costa at mid leaf with adaxial guide cells and abaxial stereid cells forming wide rows across the width with the central accessory cells forming an aperture; innermost perichaetial leaves ovate-acuminate, percurrent. Seta 0.15-0.2 mm. Spores (32-)37.5-42.5 µm, bluntly and finely papillose, yellow to orange in mass.
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