DESCRIPTION Plants Large, rigid, fragile; moist shoots 4 - 5 mm wide when flattened, stems 0.50 mm wide; terminal branching common, remote, with long pseudo-dichotomous branches, ventral-intercalary branches flagelliform. Leaves Strongly imbricate with auriculate dorsal bases overlaying the stem, deflexed when moist, strongly incurved when dry so that shoots seem tube-like, leaves spreading at right angle when moist and flattened, 2.20 - 2.60 mm long, 1.70 - 2.10 mm wide, very asymmetrically ovate-cordate, length to width ratio 1.2 - 1.4; cuticle smooth, margins denticulate to serrulate by the protrusion of mammillose marginal cells, dorsal margins auriculate, broadly expanded and arched, ventral ones convex, appendiculate at bases, basal appendage semi-circular, bent down and covering the basal border of the corresponding underleaf; apices rounded, denticulate with or without small additional teeth, 1 - 2 - celled. Cells Homogenous, gradually longer toward bases, median cells oval-oblong, 25 - 30 µm wide, 30 - 50 µm long, with thin walls and large bulging trigones sometimes confluent; marginal cells narrower, oval to lanceolate; basal cells elongate, 25 - 50 µm wide, 40 - 80 µm long, thin-walled, with huge trigones often confluent. Underleaves Erect, somewhat laterally recurved, positioned near the leaf bases and free on both sides, transversally inserted, large, reniform, entire, 0.75 - 0.85 mm long, 1.10 - 1.25 mm wide, about 3 times wider than the stem; apices entire or eroded; bordered by 2 - 3 (- 4) files of hyaline cells, chlorophyllous cells as for the leaves (Description after the Malayan specimen [PC 0793176] det. Grolle).
Sumber: A revision of the genus Bazzania Gray (Lepidoziaceae, Marchantiophyta) in New Caledonia with a review of the type specimens