Plants small, soft and slender; capitulum small; pale pink to pale purplish red; without metallic lustre when dry. Stems pale brown, green or red, rarely purplish red; superficial cortical cells aporose. Stem leaves lingulate, 0.9-1.2(-1.4) mm, apex rounded-erose to sometimes slightly apiculate, border moderately strong and broadened at the base (to 0.8 the width); hyaline cells rhombic, 0-1-septate, usually efibrillose. Branches not or slightly 5-ranked, lax. Branch fascicles with 2 spreading and 1-2 pendent branches. Branch leaves ovate, 0.8-1.4 mm, distinctly concave, straight, apex dentate and involute; border entire; hyaline cells on convex surface with elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from smaller pores near the apex to larger pores at the base, concave surface with large round pores on the proximal portions of the leaf. Sexual condition dioicous. Spores 18-24 µm; coarsely papillose on both surfaces; proximal laesura less than 0.5 the length of the spore radius.
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