Plants small to medium-sized, scattered and frequently gregarious, yellow-green to light green, but with obvious red stem and lower costae; terricolous. Stems 5-20 mm long, ± elongated, reddish. Leaves ± distant, exposing red stem, incurved dry, erect-spreading wet; ovate-acuminate to ovate-lanceolate, (0.7-)1.0-1.4 mm long, occasionally longer and narrower above; apex acuminate; margins decurrent, ± plane, entire or serrulate at apex. Costa percurrent to subpercurrent; in section rounded, bulging dorsally, guide cells 2, slightly thickened, ventral cells in single layer of 2-4 cells, dorsal stereid band small, of 4-6 cells, reddish, dorsal surface cells similar to ventral cells, large, weakly thickened. Upper laminal cells mostly 5-9: 1, elongate-rhomboidal to fusiform, 50-87 x 10 µm; basal cells ± rectangular. Propagulae multicellular, gemmate but variable in shape, ovoid to elongate-vermicular, 180-300 µm long, yellow-green to brownish, ovoid forms with several, short, incurved leaf primordia, elongated forms frequently twisted, with 1-2, frequently bent, longer leaf primordia. Sporophyte unknown.
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