Climacium dendroides

Loose tufts or cushions on soil, pale to yellow-green. Secondary stems 3–7 (–10) cm tall, pale brown, simple or with branches 10–20 mm long, tomentose; rhizoids brown on stipes becoming yellow toward branch apices. Stipe leaves erect-appressed when moist or dry, ovate, 2–3 mm long, 1.5–2.1 mm wide, somewhat concave, ±plicate; costae extending to c. 5–8 cells below apex, often ending in a single abaxial tooth; bases cordate; apices obtuse and apiculate; margins entire, serrulate near apex; cells fusiform, mostly 31–60 μm long, 4–6 μm wide, to 80 μm long at base; alar cells rectangular to subquadrate, some often hyaline and inflated. Branch leaves ovate to oblong, erect-spreading when moist, little altered when dry, ovate to oblong, 2–2.8 mm long, 0.9–1.4 mm wide, somewhat concave, plicate; costae extending to c. 5–8 cells below apex, often ending in a single abaxial tooth; bases auriculate; apices acute to obtuse; margins serrulate to serrate, more prominent towards apices; cells fusiform, mostly 31–60 μm long, 4–6 μm wide, to 80 μm long at base; alar cells rhomboid in auricles, rectangular to subquadrate near insertion with some often hyaline and inflated, 25–90 μm long, 6–40 μm wide. Setae 25–35 mm long, reddish-brown, smooth. Capsules oblong-cylindric, erect, straight, 1.5–3 (–4) mm long. Operculum rostrate from conic base, c. 0.8–1.2 mm long.