Triquetrella paradoxa

Loose tufts on soil or rock. Stems 15–40 mm tall. Leaves squarrose when moist, loosely appressed and twisted when dry, lanceolate from a wide ovate long-decurrent base, 2–3 mm long, arched, tightly carinate toward apex; apex acuminate; costa percurrent or excurrent; margin slightly undulate, recurved in basal half; laminal cells in apical half hexagonal, isodiametric, c. 6–7 μm wide, papillose; basal laminal cells near costa rectangular, bearing two rows of papillae, other cells near base similar to those toward apex. Sporophyte unknown.