Leptodontium stoloniferum Zand., Bryologist 75: 239. 1972.

Protologue: Colombia. Cundinamarca, Páramo Choachí, Lindig 2127 (M, holotype separated from isotype of L. filescens).

Leptodontium ramosum Crum & Richs., J. Bryol. 13: 193–200. 1984. Protologue: Costa Rica. Cerro de la Muerte, Sierra de Talamanca (Prov. S. José), [Richards] 6143 (MICH).         

Plants small to medium-sized, in dense tufts, yellowish brown, 1.5–3 cm high. Stems red-brown, erect or laxly ascending, often covered above with unistratose enations, small hyalodermis present, sparsely radiculose below. Leaves widely spaced, erect-spreading, contorted to crispate when dry, spreading to patulous when wet, oblong-ovate to elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long, concave, erect-sheathing at base, decurrent; apices broadly acute; margins recurved in lower 1/2, coarsely serrate in upper 1/3; costa ending well below the apex; upper leaf cells quadrate to hexagonal, firm- to thick-walled with rounded corners, pluripapillose, papillae small, simple or c-shaped, 8–11 μm in diameter, outer basal cells narrowly long-rectangular, thick-walled, often porose, 32.5–75 x 5–10 μm, inner basal cells elongate, oblong to oblong-hexagonal, thin-walled, bulging, hyaline, 35–75 x 12.5–22.5 μm, sharply demarcated from upper cells and outer basal cells, alar cells not differentiated. Asexual reproduction by fusiform gemmae (with transverse and vertical walls) borne at the apex of stout, leafless branches, on upper part of main stem, gemmiferous branches densely covered with enations identical to those often found on the stems. Inflorescences and sporophytes unknown.