Syzygiella tasmanica

Shoots prostrate, lime green, sometimes red, especially toward shoot tips, without stolons; branches infrequent and emerging from stems laterally and associated with an ovate leaf or emerging from stem ventrally. Leaves ovate to elliptic-ovate with rounded to truncate apex, sometimes retuse, 750–3750 µm long, 650–2625 µm wide, widely spreading to directed dorsally near base before curving back toward substrate, succubous, entire, however, often adnate to small underleaf at base and appearing to have a basal spur, concave abaxially, dorsally inserted on stem near midline and leaving no uninterrupted rows of cells along the dorsal stem, occasionally connate with opposing leaf. Underleaves minute, subulate to elliptic, rarely deeply bilobed, often adnate to one leaf and decurrent on other side, sometimes connected to both leaves of pair by a connecting ridge. Leaf cells polygonal to oblong, sometimes more elongate in basal centre, 15–48 µm long, 15–35 µm wide, smooth or finely striate, particularly near base, thin-walled, with small trigones, with 16–20 oil bodies; oil bodies spherical to ovoid or ellipsoid, papillose. Androecium with up to 12 pairs of bracts, each with a single antheridium. Bracts below perianth free, innermost bilobed and laciniate. Bracteole similar size as bracts, free, bilobed, often with accessory lobules. Perianth ellipsoid to obovoid, plicate in apical 1/4–1/3, not twisted, with shallowly lobulate and denticulate mouth. Capsule ellipsoid, 5–6-stratose; spores vermiculate with fine papillae; elaters bispiral.