Plants moderate-sized, green in the shade to variegated yellow or orange or both in open habitats; capitulum typically rounded. Stems green to brownish or yellow; superficial cortex of 1 layer of enlarged, thin-walled cells. Stem leaves lingulate to triangular-lingulate, 0.9-1.2 mm, apex rounded, usually 1/3-1/2 of leaf fibrillose; hyaline cells usually fibrillose in distal 1/3-1/2 of leaf, on convex surface near apex with 1-3 pores per cell, on concave surface near apex 1-4 pores per cell. Branches arched but rarely curved and contorted. Branch fascicles with 2-3 spreading and 2-3 pendent branches. Branch leaves ovate, 1-1.5 mm, straight to slightly subsecund; hyaline cells of convex surface with numerous ringed pores along the commissures (12-22 per cell), 0-3 pores per cell on the concave surface. Capsule with few pseudostomata. Spores 30-37 µm; finely papillose on both surfaces, indistinct raised Y-shaped sculpture on distal surface; proximal laesura 0.5 spore radius or less.
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