Size
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Plants dioecious, slightly mucilaginous, 3-7 cm high, 200-350 μm in diameter, abundantly and more or less irregularly branched, olive-green; whorls spherical or ellipsoidal, more or less separated; primary fascicles abundantly branched, 5-8 cell-storeys, cells lanceolate, ellipsoidal, fusiform, or ovoidal, terminal hairs rare; secondary fascicles numerous, varying in length; spermatangia spherical, 4-5 μm in diameter, terminal on fascicles; carpogonium-bearing branches strongly curved, 10-20 μm long, consisting of 3-4 barrel-shaped cells, arising from periaxial cells; involucral filaments numerous and very short; carpogonia 5 μm in diameter at the base, 4-5 μm in diameter at the apex, 30-35 μm long, trichogyne cylindrical, indistinctly stalked; carposporophytes single, rarely in pairs, spherical or hemispherical, 50-200 μm in diameter, 50-150 μm high, inserted centrally in whorl; carposporangia ellipsoidal or ovoidal, 7 μm in diameter, 8-9 μm long.
