Plants moderate-sized to robust, usually soft and lax, sometimes moderately stiff, capitulum typically enlarged and flat-topped, ± stellate; green to golden brown, unshaded plants often reddish purple, plants with metallic sheen when dry. Stems yellowish to dark brown; superficial cortical cells aporose. Stem leaves triangular-lingulate to broadly lingulate, 0.9-1.3 mm, apex broadly rounded to obtusely angled, border very strong and broad at base (more than 0.4 width); hyaline cells rhombic, efibrillose, most 0-1-septate. Branches long, tapering, imbricate, not 5-ranked. Branch fascicles with 2 spreading and 1-2 pendent branches. Branch leaves ovate, 2-2.5 mm, concave, straight, apex involute; hyaline cells on convex surface with elliptic pores along the commissures grading from moderate-sized pores near leaf apex to large pores at the base, concave surface with large round pores in proximal portions of leaf. Sexual condition monoicous. Spores 23-31 µm, irregularly coarsely papillose on both surfaces; proximal laesura less than or equal to 0.5 spore radius
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