Plants medium to large, pink, becoming yellowish with age, brownish below; terricolous. Stems to 60 mm high; internal cylinder pink, hyalodermis efibrillose, pores scattered; in section inner cells of internal cylinder large, outer 3-4 rows smaller, strongly incrassate, hyalodermis 2-3 cells thick. Fascicles of 3-4 monomorphic spreading branches; internal cylinder pink, hyalodermis efibrillose, pores 1-2 per cell. Stem leaves oblong, 1.0-1.6 mm long; apex obtuse to rounded, serrate; margins erect, border of 4-6 rows of narrow cells extending to mid-leaf; leucocysts efibrillose or occasionally very weakly fibrillose in upper leaf, pores rare, some cells with single pore; in section chlorocysts rectangular to triangular with wider exposure on ventral surface, leucocysts bulging dorsally. Branch leaves ovate-acuminate, 1.2-1.6 mm long; apex acute, with 1-2 teeth; margins incurved above, border of 2-3 rows of narrow cells extending to near apex; leucocysts regularly fibrillose, pores few, 1-3 per cell; in section chlorocysts triangular to trapezoid with wider exposure on ventral surface, leucocysts bulging dorsally. Sporophyte not known.
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