Plants red pigmented; capitulum flat-topped and moderately dense. Stem red-tinged, cortex eporose. Stem leaves triangular-lingulate to lingulate with a more or less obtuse apex, 0.8-1.05 × 0.5-0.55 mm; border strongly developed at the base; hyaline cells rhomboid and 0-1-septate, efibrillose and eporose. Branches with leaves 5-ranked and loosely spreading. Branch leaves small, 1-1.2 × 0.3-0.35 mm; convex surface with moderate-sized pores, grading from 4-6 µm near apex to more than 20 µm at base, concave surface eporose except for occasional large round pores in proximal side regions. Sexual condition unknown.