Plants medium to large, yellow-green to yellowish, occasionally reddish, brown below; terricolous or saxicolous. Stems 50-120 mm high; internal cylinder brownish, hyalodermis efibrillose, pores weakly defined, ± 1 per cell; in section inner cells large, thin-walled, becoming smaller and incrassate toward margin of internal cylinder, hyalodermis 2-3 cells thick. Fascicles of 5-6 monomorphic branches; internal cylinder brownish, hyalodermis efibrillose, pores scattered to 1 per cell. Stem leaves broad, oblong to spathulate, 0.9-1.2 mm long; apex obtuse; margins plane, bordered by 2-4 rows of narrow cells to near apex; leucocysts essentially efibrillose, pores large, numerous, confined to commissures, absent in leaf base; in section chlorocysts oval, totally enclosed or occasionally equally exposed on both surfaces; leucocysts slightly bulging on both surfaces. Branch leaves ovate, 0.6-0.8 mm long; apex acute; margins involute above, border of narrow cells 1-2 cells wide, extending to near apex; leucocysts fibrillose, although frequently weakly so, occasionally efibrillose, pores numerous along commissures; in section chlorocysts oval, totally enclosed or sometimes equally exposed on both surfaces, leucocysts slightly bulging dorsally. Perichaetia terminal; leaves broadly oval, 2.7 mm long; apex broadly acute, somewhat irregular; leucocysts fibrillose to efibrillose. Pseudopodia 4.5-5.0 mm long; capsule exserted, dark red-brown, mouth wide-spreading when deoperculate; operculum and calyptra not seen; spores bulging triangular, 35 µm, tetrad scar obvious, finely granulose.
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