Chrysoblastella chilensis

Dioicous. Loose tufts on soil. Stems 1–2.5 cm long, with simple or branched erect stems with sparse brown rhizoids arising from reddish brown prostrate creeping stem. Non-deciduous globose, obovate to pyriform tubers, (0.56–) 1–2 mm long, (0.35–) 0.5–0.9 mm wide, occasionally produced laterally or terminally on stems or on rhizoids, producing new shoots that may eventually detach as vegetative propagules. Leaves erect-spreading when moist, little altered to incurved or appressed when dry, arranged in three distinct helicoidal rows, broadly oblong- to narrowly triangular or ovate-lanceolate, 1–3 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm wide, ±fleshy, channelled beyond widest point; apices obtuse or acute; costae percurrent; margins entire or with occasional teeth at apex, plane to ±recurved in basal half, without a border; cells in apical half bistratose, quadrate to short-rectangular, 6–15.5 μm long, 6–10 μm wide, papillose; cells toward base unistratose for half width, otherwise bistratose, rectangular, 25–40 μm long, 7–10 μm wide, smooth or less prominently papillose. Setae 1–2 cm long, yellowish. Capsules erect, oblong or cylindric, straight or slightly curved, 2–3 mm long. Opercula rostrate or oblique-rostrate, 1–1.5 mm long. Peristome of 16 teeth irregularly divided almost to base into 2 filaments.