Lepidozia novae-zelandiae var. minima R.M.Schust.
Type: New Zealand, South Is., Fiordland, Falls Creek, Schuster 48802b.
Distribution : Endemic to New Zealand and known only from the type.
Plants rather rigid and wiry, appearing small-leaved (for the stem diam.), the shoots with leaves to ca. 0.7 mm broad. Branching remotely 1-pinnate, the branches short, remote; first basal branch underleaf 1- or 2-lobed. Stem only ca. 6 cells in vertical diam., with lateral merophytes 4–5 cells broad; cortical cells very thick-walled; medulla of strongly thick-walled cells. Leaves only 175–200 µm broad, asymmetrically 4-fid, the median sinus descending ca. 0.55–0.6, deeper than the dorsal sinus (dorsal pair of lobes forming a perceptible, ± parallel-sided pair); disc ca. 4 cells high to dorsal sinus; dorsal lobes only 2–3 cells broad at base, to 4–6(7) cells long, ending in 2(3) single cells that are 1.5–2× as long as broad. Underleaves inserted on 4 rows of cortical cells, small, the disc usually 2 cells high, the lobes 2(3) cells broad at base, (3)4 cells long.
