Description:
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Plant creeping, moss-like, slender, branched; main stem up to 10 cm long; rhizophores filiform, 0.5-2 cm long. Leaves spiral, clearly distinct from the stem in colour, subdimorphic, narrowly triangular-lanceolate in outline, apex subacuminate and terminated by a white awn, entire or with loose and fine teeth, clearly distinct from the blade, not changing over time, glabrous, glaucous green, with a midrib not quite reaching the apex, base adnate, margin entire or slightly and loosely toothed towards apex, teeth very short, conical, barely visible; upper leaves 1.8–2 x 0.4 mm, subplanar, awned 0.2 mm long; lower leaves 2.1–2.4 x 0.4 mm, slightly recurved, thick, awned 0.3 mm long. Strobili not yet known in mature state, dorsiventral, short. Sporophylls in four rows; upper sporophylls lanceolate, cochleariform, c. 2.2 x 0.7 mm, rounded at base, loosely and finely toothed at margins, acuminate and awned at apex, awn 0.4–0 .5mm long; lower sporophylls ovate, cochleariform, 2.7–2.8 x 1.1–1.2 mm, rounded at base, densely and irregularly toothed to ciliate at margins, acuminate and awned at apex, with awn 0.5–0.6 mm long; heteroporus. |