Plants small to medium-sized, loosely caespitose, light green to yellow-green; terrico-lous. Stems 5-10 mm high, sparsely branched, tomentose below, reddish; in section round, central strand small, inner cortical cells in 3-4 rows, slightly thickened toward margin, outer cortical cells in 1-2 rows, stereids, reddish, epidermal cells larger, fragile, thin-walled. Leaves erect to spreading wet or dry; ovate-acuminate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5(-3.0) mm long, lamina unistratose; apex acuminate; margins reflexed, serrate above, frequently bistratose. Costa excurrent to long-excurrent, superficial cells rectangular, weakly prorate above; in section bulging dorsally, guide cells 2-4, larger than other cells, ventral stereid band (1-)2-3 cells thick, exposed, dorsal stereid band 3-8 cells thick, occasionally substereids, surface cells not strongly differentiated. Laminal cells short-rectangular, incrassate, ± flexuose, 6-8:1, papillae generally over lumen; basal cells weakly differentiated, frequently papillose, generally 20 or more cells wide on each side of costa; alar cells occasionally distinct. Autoicous. Perichaetia terminal, leaves ± broader. Seta 5-10 mm long, reddish; capsule inclined, urn globose wet, cylindrical-sulcate dry, 2 mm long, red-brown; exothecial cells oblong-hexagonal, thin-walled, 4-5 rows of transversely rectangular cells at mouth; stomata present at base of urn, phaneropore; peristome absent; operculum convex-apiculate; spores subround, to 50 µm, warty, brownish.
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