Distichophyllum pulchellum

Dioicous. Asexual reproduction rarely by filamentous gemmae in leaf axils. Dense mats on soil, rocks, logs and tree ferns, yellow-green to red-brown. Stems 3–50 mm long, red-brown, with scattered red-brown rhizoids, occasionally branched. Leaves usually complanate, undulate and crisped when dry, spathulate, obovate to elliptic, 1–2 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, plane; apex rounded, often with a small apiculus; costa extending to three quarters of leaf length; margins entire, plane, often reflexed at apex, with 2–3 rows of narrower hyaline cells forming a distinct border; laminal cells in apical half away from margin irregularly quadrate to hexagonal, 7–30 μm long, 7–23 μm wide, smooth; basal laminal cells away from margin irregularly rectangular to hexagonal, 30–90 μm long, 10–35 μm wide, smooth; marginal cells linear, 110–183 μm long, 5–7.5 μm wide. Setae 10–30 mm long, red-brown, smooth, not distinctly twisted. Capsule horizontal to pendent, oblong-cylindric, 0.6–2.5 mm long. Calyptra subscabrid at apex, fimbriate at base. Operculum rostrate from conic base, 0.5–0.8 mm long.