Plants terrestrial, forming loose to clustered mats. Stems not readily fragmenting, prostrate, upperside and underside structurally different, irregularly forked, branches determinate, tips upturned. Rhizophores borne on upperside of stems, throughout stem length, 0.25--0.45 mm diam. Leaves with underside leaves slightly longer and narrower than upperside leaves, otherwise monomorphic, not clearly ranked, tightly appressed, ascending, green or green with red spots, or reddish, linear-lanceolate (underside) to linear-triangular (upperside), (2--)3--4.5 X 0.5--0.6 mm; abaxial ridges present; base abruptly adnate, pubescent (sometimes glabrous); margins ciliate, cilia white to white opaque, strongly appressed and ascending, 0.03--0.1 mm; apex with bristle white to white-opaque, 0.5--1.4 mm (those on underside leaves sometimes 1/4--1/2 longer than those on upperside leaves). Strobili solitary, 5--7 mm; sporophylls ovate-deltate to ovate-triangular, abaxial ridges not prominent, base glabrous, margins short-ciliate, apex bristled.
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