Trematodon intermedius Welw. & Duby

Plants small, gregarious, green; terricolous. Stems 1-2 mm tall; in section central strand small, inner cortical cells lax, outer cortical cells small, incrassate, reddish. Leaves flexuose to erect wet or dry; oval to oblong, subulate, 1.5-3.0 mm long; apex acute, bluntly toothed; margins entire, bistratose above. Costa percurrent to short-excurrent; in section elliptical, guide cells 4, central, exposed laterally, ventral stereid band small, of 6-8 cells in central group, ventral surface cells small, incrassate, only over stereid band, dorsal stereid band in 1-2 rows across costa, dorsal surface cells larger, completely covering stereid band. Laminal cells rectangular above shoulders; basal cells lax, rectangular to oblong-hexagonal. Perichaetial leaves oblong-subulate, 2.0-2.5 mm long. Seta erect, 3-4 mm long, yellow; capsule erect, yellow, urn short-cylindrical, to 1 mm long, neck to 1.5 mm long, strumose; peristome rudimentary, consisting of short basal membrane, occasionally with short, irregular, papillose thickenings; operculum rostrate, to 1 mm long; calyptra cucullate, small, not completely covering urn; spores rounded, 25-28 µm, papillose.