Codonoblepharon minutus

Dioicous. Dense tufts on trees or rocks, olive-green to green, female plants 1–3 mm tall, male plants smaller. Stems simple or branched, orange or yellow, with dense red-brown rhizoids at base. Leaves flexuose when dry, erect-spreading when moist, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.8–1.4 (–1.7) mm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, plane or slightly carinate; apex apiculate; base non-decurrent; costa usually excurrent, rarely percurrent or subpercurrent; margin entire, plane or slightly reflexed near base, without a border; laminal cells in apical half quadrate, short-rectangular or rhomboidal, 6–25 μm long, 7.5–15 μm wide, smooth; basal laminal cells rectangular, 15–50 μm long, 10–20 μm wide, smooth. Seta 1.5–3 mm long, yellow or light brown, smooth, twisted anticlockwise. Capsules broadly ovoid or pyriform, 1–1.5 mm long, yellow or light brown, ribbed when dry. Peristome double; exostome teeth in 8 pairs, reflexed when dry; endostome segments 8, sometimes with 8 rudimentary segments between, 1/2–2/3 height of exostome. Operculum rostrate from conic base, 0.2–0.4 mm long.