Leptotheca gaudichaudii var. gaudichaudii

Asexual reproduction by filamentous red-brown gemmae on upper stem between leaves. Tufts on soil, rocks, logs, tree ferns and tree trunks, light green. Stems to 30 mm long, brown at base, otherwise pale green, with red-brown rhizoids toward base. Leaves imbricate, erect-spreading when moist with apices curled toward stem, slightly twisted and folded along costa when dry, broadly lanceolate, slightly asymmetric, 0.55–2 mm long, 0.2–0.5 mm wide, flat or convex adaxially, curled, slightly twisted and folded along costa when dry; costa excurrent as a hairpoint; hairpoint to 0.5 mm long, with occasional protuberances; apex acuminate to obtuse; margins denticulate to serrate toward apex, otherwise entire, without a border of elongate cells, flat; laminal cells irregular, rhomboidal, quadrate, polygonal, triangular, oblate or rectangular, 5–28 μm long, 5–15 μm wide. Setae 13–30 mm long, reddish-brown or yellow, smooth. Capsules cylindric, erect, straight, 2.5–4 mm long. Operculum conic, 0.3–0.45 mm long.