Calyptopogon mnioides

Dioicous. Asexual reproduction regularly by multicellar gemmae borne on costa. Tufts or loose colonies on bark of trees or on twigs and small branches. Stems 10–40 mm tall, yellowish green, darker brown and tomentose near base. Leaves erecto-patent or wide-spreading when moist, twisted and crisped when dry, oblong-lanceolate, 3–4.5 mm long, concave, carinate toward apex or flat; apex shortly acuminate or acute; costa excurrent as a mucro, usually bearing multicellular gemmae in apical half of leaf; margin entire, undulate, with a border of hyaline or yellow more elongated cells at the base, becoming intramarginal in the apical half, with a row of smaller quadrate cells on the margin; laminal cells in apical half irregularly polygonal, rounded at angles, isodiametric, c. 10–16 μm wide, pluripapillose, KOH reaction red or yellow with red blotches or yellow-orange; basal cells abruptly differentiated, rising higher marginally and fusing with intramarginal border, linear or rectangular, hyaline. Seta 3–4 mm long. Capsule erect, oblong cylindric, 2–2.5 mm long, yellowish. Peristome of 32 filaments, reddish or brown, twisted to the left, bifid to basal cylinder. Operculum narrowly conic, 2–2.5 mm long.