Cryphaea tenella

Stems procumbent, ascending or pendent, irregularly branched, orange to dark brown, with sparse brown rhizoids confined to base. Leaves erect-spreading when moist, appressed when dry, ovate-lanceolate, tapering gradually, 1–1.6 mm long, 0.25–0.6 mm wide, carinate along costae; apices acuminate, shortly aristate; costae single, usually percurrent; margins entire, recurved near base, without a border; cells hexagonal to rhomboid or elliptic, 7–30 μm long, 5–10 μm wide, often longer near the costae, and becoming longer near costa at base, to 35 μm long, smooth to minutely prorate. Perchaetial leaves oblong-lanceolate, 1.5–2.2 mm long, 0.3–0.6 mm wide, with excurrent costa. Setae to c. 0.25 mm long. Capsules erect, obloid to ellipsoid, 0.8–1.1 mm long, straight, yellow-brown. Calyptra prorate near apex. Opercula conic from flat base, 0.3–0.5 mm long.