Plants small, green, brown, or red-green. Stems 0.5-2 cm, distinctly singly rosulate, innovations elongate, evenly foliate. Leaves of fertile rosettes and innovations differentiated; rosette leaves irregularly twisted to contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist, broadly ovate to obovate, flat, 1-2.5 mm; base not decurrent; margins recurved to mid leaf, entire or weakly serrulate distally, limbidium absent or weak, of 1 row of cells; apex acute; costa not reaching apex to excurrent, awn pigmented or hyaline, slender, irregularly twisted when dry; proximal laminal cells long-rectangular; medial and distal cells long-rhomboidal, 12-20 µm wide, 3-5:1, walls thin, porose; innovation leaves red-brown, somewhat twisted to weakly imbricate when dry, broadly lanceolate to ovate, concave, 0.5-1.5 mm, awn present, short, pigmented to sometimes hyaline. Specialized asexual reproduction rarely by gemmae in distal leaf axils, brown, finely papillose, and rhizoidal tubers, , orange-red to red, , (60-)100-200 µm, . Sexual condition dioicous. Capsule inclined to nutant, brown to red-brown, cylindric, 2-5 mm.
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