Plants small, red-green. Stems0.5-2 cm, fertile stems evenly foliate to weakly rosulate, innovations evenly foliate. Leaves of main rosette and innovations similar, innovation leaves smaller; somewhat irregularly twisted to contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist, ovate, weakly concave, 1-2 mm; base not decurrent; margins recurved to mid leaf, weakly but distinctly serrulate distally, limbidium moderately distinct, of 1 or 2 rows of cells; apex acute; costa excurrent, awn pigmented; proximal laminal cells short-rectangular; medial and distal cells rhomboidal, 14-20 µm wide, 3-4:1, walls thick, not porose. Specialized asexual reproduction by rhizoidal tubers, amber, orange, orange-red, or dark red, becoming orange-brown, pale brown, or dark brown when old, , (120-)180-350 µm, cells not or only weakly protuberant. Sexual condition dioicous, synoicous, or autoicous. Capsule nutant, red to red-brown, cylindric, 2-3 mm.
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