Plants in dense tufts, yellow to yellow-brown; terricolous. Stems erect or prostrate, old stems stoloniferous, 4-15 mm long, simple or branching by subperichaetial innovations, central strand small, cells thin-walled, inner cortical cells large, thin-walled, in 2 rows, outer cortical cells small, in 1-2 rows. Leaves erect-spreading; ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, 0.9-1.3 mm long; margins plane to recurved above, entire to serrulate above. Costa percurrent to short-excurrent; in section round, central cells substereids, surface cells incrassate. Laminal cells laxly rectangular to rhomboidal above; basal cells rectangular to quadrate below, lax, lower marginal cells short-rectangular to quadrate. Perichaetia terminal. Leaves erect; oblong-acuminate, 1.3-2.4 mm long; base ovate; margins recurved above, entire. Costa percurrent to short-excurrent; in section round, central cells incrassate or substereids, surface cells incrassate. Laminal cells laxly rectangular to rhomboidal, 80-110 pm long, basal cells larger, laxly rectangular. Spores 8-60 per capsule, rounded to irregularly angular or polyhedral, 150-170 µm, smooth to granulose, yellow.
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