Plants epiphytic, uniseriate below, occasionally becoming biseriate to multiseriate above, uniseriate diameter = 12.5 um, pluriseriate with 2 rows of cells = 25 um, arising from basal cells with lobed rhizoidal attachments or minute prostrate discs; cells of erect filaments swollen, subquadrate rectangular to irregular.

(In: http://chrsl.chem.lsu.edu/~wwwpb/Chapman/Eryt_car15.html)