Plants medium-sized, looselv caespitose, green to yellow-green or reddish above, brownish to blackish brown below; terricolous or saxicolous. Stems erect, 10-30 mm tall, sparsely branched, reddish tomentum on lower stem; in section round, central strand present, inner cortical cells in 68 rows, thin-walled, yellowish, outer cortical cells in 2 rows, cells small, stereids or substereids, reddish to dark red, epidermal cells not differentiated. Leaves squarrose-recurved dry, wide-spreading to squarrose wet; mostly 3-5 mm long, ventral surface flat over costa, lamina bistratose juxtacostally and in irregular patches just above base, completely bistratose in upper leaf; apex subulate; margins reflexed to recurved, doubly denticulate in subula by large, smooth, clear cells, distinct from laminal cells. Costa short-excurrent as denticulate awn, occasionally reddish below, ventral superficial cells rectangular, prorate to sharply dentate in upper subula; in section bulging dorsally, subtriangular, guide cells 6, small but distinct, ventral stereid to substereid band 1-3 cells thick, ventral surface cells smaller than guide cells, incrassate, prorate, dorsal stereid to substereid band strong, 3-4 cells thick, dorsal surface cells incrassate, prorate. Laminal cells rectangular, 1.5-3.0: 1, weakly thickened, strongly or weakly prorate distally and/or proximally; basal cells long-rectangular, to 10: 1, thin-walled, smooth, yellowish; alar cells weakly differentiated, quadrate, clear. Perigonia terminal, gemmate. Perichaetia terminal, becoming lateral through innovation; leaves similar to vegetative leaves, elliptical-subulate. Sporophytes rare. Seta 7 mm long, yellowish; capsule inclined, urn subglobose, 2 mm long, rugulose dry, red-brown; exothecial cells subhexagonal, thickened in comers; stomata present at base of urn, phaneropore; peristome double, exostome teeth 16, narrowly triangular, 0.3 mm long, papillose, reddish yellow, endostome rudimentary, irregular and very short, attached to teeth, smooth; operculum not seen; young calyptra cucullate, smooth; spores rounded, 12-18 µm, warty, yellowish.
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