Ulota viridis var. viridis

Tufts on trees, yellowish green or greyish green, 3–5 mm tall. Stems creeping, 10–15 mm long, red, tomentose with red-brown or brown rhizoids toward base. Leaves erect-spreading when moist, appressed and slightly twisted when dry, linear-lanceolate, 1–2.2 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, concave; apex acute to narrowly acuminate; costa ending below apex; margin entire, plane or slightly recurved in middle, mostly on one side; laminal cells in apical half circular or irregularly isodiametric to rectangular, 7–18 μm long, 5–12 μm wide, unistratose, mamillose; basal laminal cells away from margin delimited by leaf shoulder, gradually transitioning to cells toward apex, almost vermicular, 17–45 μm long, 5–10 μm wide, smooth, yellowish; basal marginal cells less elongate, quadrate or rectangular, 7–40 μm  long, 5–13 μm wide, clear, forming a distinct border extending to leaf shoulder, 2–6 rows wide. Seta 3–5 mm long, yellow, smooth, twisted anticlockwise. Capsules erect, oblong, 1–1.9 mm long, straight, yellow or light brown, finely ribbed when dry; neck short. Exostome teeth recurved when dry; endostome segments 8. Operculum rostrate from conic base, 0.4–0.5 mm long.