Syzygiella colorata

Shoots prostrate to erect, green, coppery or reddish, rarely with stolons; branches mostly emerging from ventral side of stem, rarely laterally and associated with a narrower leaf. Leaves orbicular to broadly elliptic with rounded apex, 800–1650 µm long, 775–1350 µm wide, succubous, entire, but sometimes united with a reduced underleaf which appears as a spur, cilia-like or bilobed appendage at base to c. 20 cells long, concave adaxially. Leaf cells oblong, rounded polygonal or quadrate to circular, mostly 22–38 µm long, 17–33 µm wide, smaller along margin, larger and more elongated toward basal centre where 38–75 µm long, 20–35 µm wide, often decolorate near margins, with several prominent hemispherical papillae, with distinct and often confluent trigones, with 3–5 (–8) oil bodies, increasing to 10–14 in elongated basal cells; oil bodies spherical or ellipsoid, finely granular, appearing almost smooth. Androecia with up to 10 pairs of bracts, each with a single antheridium. Gynoecium bracts with multiple divisions and irregularly laciniate, free from each other. Bracteoles shorter to a similar in length to bracts, free or connate at its base with one of the bracts, irregularly laciniate. Perianth narrowly obloid to fusiform, plicate in apical 1/4–1/2, not twisted, with shallowly lobulate mouth without teeth. Capsule ellipsoid, 5-stratose; spores verrucate; elaters bispiral.