Ulota cochleata

Autoicous. Tufts on trees, yellowish brown. Stems erect, 6–10 mm long, black, with red rhizoids toward base. Leaves widely spreading when moist, strongly twisted but not crisped when dry, linear-lanceolate with a shoulder c. ¼ way along leaf from attachment, 2–3.5 mm long, 0.4–0.9 mm wide, concave; apex acute or acuminate; costa ending below or in apex; margin entire, plane, with a distinct border of less elongate cells below shoulder; laminal cells in apical half short-rectangular to quadrate, 5–20 μm long, 5–12 μm wide, papillose; basal laminal cells away from margin abruptly delimited by the leaf shoulder, rectangular to linear, 15–70 μm long, 3.5–8 μm wide, smooth, yellowish; basal marginal cells less elongate, quadrate or rectangular, 8–35 μm long, 7–15 μm wide, clear, forming a distinct border extending to leaf shoulder, 4–6 rows wide. Seta 2.5–5 mm long, yellowish, smooth, twisted anticlockwise. Capsule erect, oblong-ovoid to subcylindric, 1–2 mm long, straight, yellowish or brown, 8-ribbed to base; neck short. Exostome teeth splitting, recurved when dry; endostome segments 8. Operculum rostrate from conic base, 0.4–0.5 mm long.