Plants small to large, green to red-green. Stems 0.4-5 cm, distinctly and singly rosulate, often with interrupted tufts, innovations short, rosulate. Leaves of main rosette and innovations similar, latter smaller; irregularly twisted and spirally twisted around stem when dry, erect-spreading when moist, obovate, weakly concave, 0.6-4 mm; base not decurrent; margins recurved on larger leaves to near apex, distinctly and strongly serrate distally, limbidium strong, of 3 or 4 rows of cells; apex broadly acute; costa short-excurrent, awn stout, variously straight to curved when dry; proximal laminal cells long-rectangular in rosette leaves, short-rectangular in smaller proximal leaves; medial and distal cells short-rhomboidal, 16-20 µm wide, 3-5:1, walls thin to firm, porose. Specialized asexual reproduction by gemmae in leaf axils, brownish, densely papillose, and rhizoidal tubers, reddish brown, 300-1000 µm. Sexual condition dioicous. Capsule nutant to inclined, brown, cylindric, 3-6 mm.
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