Plants in mats, wide-spreading, dark green when dry, bright green when moist. Secondary stems to 10 cm, ± regularly pinnate and subfrondiform, lateral branches subequal, to 1.5 cm, flagelliform distally, occasionally fertile or bearing small (less than 5 mm) branchlets. Stem leaves julaceous when dry, erect-spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate; margins serrulate to sharply denticulate at apex; costa sometimes 2-fid distally, supplementary costae absent or rudimentary, 1-3 on each side of main costa base, length less than 6 cells; laminal cell walls not or poorly pitted; medial cells 15-22 × 3-6 µm. Branch leaves julaceous and apically recurved when dry, erect-spreading when moist. Perichaetial leaves deltoid to elongate-acuminate, basal laminal cells rectangular, 4-5:1, walls thin, medial cells flexuose-elongate, 5-8:1. Seta 0.8-1.1 cm. Capsule erect to asymmetric-curved, brown, cylindric to oblong-cylindric, 2.5-5 mm. Spores 18-22 µm. Plants in mats, wide-spreading, dark green when dry, bright green when moist. Secondary stems to 10 cm, ± regularly pinnate and subfrondiform, lateral branches subequal, to 1.5 cm, flagelliform distally, occasionally fertile or bearing small (less than 5 mm) branchlets. Stem leaves julaceous when dry, erect-spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate; margins serrulate to sharply denticulate at apex; costa sometimes 2-fid distally, supplementary costae absent or rudimentary, 1-3 on each side of main costa base, length less than 6 cells; laminal cell walls not or poorly pitted; medial cells 15-22 × 3-6 µm. Branch leaves julaceous and apically recurved when dry, erect-spreading when moist. Perichaetial leaves deltoid to elongate-acuminate, basal laminal cells rectangular, 4-5:1, walls thin, medial cells flexuose-elongate, 5-8:1. Seta 0.8-1.1 cm. Capsule erect to asymmetric-curved, brown, cylindric to oblong-cylindric, 2.5-5 mm. Spores 18-22 µm.General Information
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