Plants small to usually medium-sized, green or red-green. Stems1.5-2 cm, distinctly singly rosulate, innovations short, rosulate. Leaves of main rosette and innovations similar; slightly twisted to contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist, broadly ovate to obovate, flat, 1.5-3 mm; base not decurrent; margins recurved from mid leaf to near apex, distinctly and strongly serrate distally, limbidium strong, of 2-4 rows of cells; apex acute; costa short-excurrent to excurrent, awn stout or slender, irregularly twisted when dry; proximal laminal cells long-rectangular in rosette leaves; medial and distal cells long-rhomboidal, 12-20 µm wide, 3-5:1, walls firm, not porose. Specialized asexual reproduction by rhizoidal tubers, scarlet, crimson, or red, , (100-)200-300 µm. Sexual condition dioicous or polyoicous. Capsule strongly nutant, red, elongate-pyriform, 3-6 mm.
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