Plants small, gracile, and rather delicate in appearance, green to brownish green. Stems to 2 cm. Leaves 2.5-6 × 0.7-1.5 mm, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, plane or rarely weakly undulate, teeth few and scattered on abaxial surface of lamina or absent, the apex acute, proximal leaves somewhat obtuse; border narrow, with small, rather distant marginal teeth; costa subpercurrent to percurrent, with several abaxial teeth near apex; lamellae 2-5, 4-7 cells high; median leaf cells 19-24 µm wide, laxly subquadrate to irregularly hexagonal, evenly thin-walled, not or weakly collenchymatous, becoming somewhat larger adjacent to the costa, smooth. Sexual condition dioicous; male plants about same size as female, perigonial bracts broad, forming a cup-like inflorescence, sometimes more than one per plant. Seta 1(-2) per perichaetium, to 2 cm. Capsule 1-2 × 0.5-0.8 mm, erect to inclined, straight to somewhat curved; operculum 1.5-2 mm. Spores 15-30 µm.
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