Plants small to medium-sized, maroon, red, or red-green. Stems 1-2.5 cm, distinctly singly rosulate, innovations short, rosulate. Leaves of main rosette and innovations similar; appressed and not much altered to sometimes spirally twisted around stem, erect-spreading when moist, obovate, flat, 1-2.5 mm; base decurrent; margins recurved to mid leaf, distinctly serrulate distally, limbidium present, of 2-4 rows of cells; apex acute; costa not reaching apex, percurrent, or short-excurrent, awn stout; proximal laminal cells long-rectangular in rosette leaves; medial and distal cells short-rhomboidal, 15-25µm wide, 2-3:1, walls firm, not porose. Specialized asexual reproduction by rhizoidal tubers, orange, maroon, or red, (180-)200-350 µm. Sexual condition dioicous. Capsule nutant, brown to red-brown, cylindric to elongate-pyriform, 2.5-4 mm.
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