Plants in dense tufts, glaucous or brownish green. Stems 0.5-3 cm. Leaves erect to erect-spreading and somewhat flexuose when dry, spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate, 2-5 mm; base sheathing, shoulders well developed, firm, ; margins strongly revolute, serrulate distally, teeth paired; apex subulate, ; costa excurrent, prominent in distal limb, distal abaxial surface rough; basal laminal cell walls thick toward costa, thin toward margins; distal cells 8-25 × 4-8 µm, prorulae high. Sexual condition synoicous or dioicous. Seta 0.6-1.6 cm, straight to slightly arcuate. Capsule inclined, globose to ovoid, asymmetric, 1.5-2.5 mm; operculum short-convex; peristome single or double; exostome teeth 200-350 µm, finely papillose proximally, vertically striate distally; endostome absent or, if present, basal membrane rudimentary, segments sometimes present, less than 1/3 length of teeth, finely papillose, cilia absent. Spores 25-35(-40) µm.
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