Plants small, forming loose turfs, light green to yellowish green, glossy; terricolous. Stems (2-)5-10 mm long, sparsely radiculose below; in section cortical cells in 2-4 rows. Leaves erect-appressed, little altered dry, concave; ovate to ovate-acuminate or ovate-lanceolate, 0.5-0.8 mm long; apex acute to acuminate; base flat, not concave; margins erect, entire. Costa short-excurrent, mucro 0.1-0.2 mm long; in section subround, ventral cells 2, large, thin-walled, dorsal substereid band 2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells undifferentiated. Upper laminal cells mostly 6-10: 1, fusiform to linear-rhomboidal, ± sinuolate, (50-)75-150 µm long, 12-18 µm wide, dorsal surface weakly thickened; basal cells generally distinct,quadrate to short-rectangular, 1-2: 1, thin-walled. Perichaetial leaves triangular, ± 1 mm long. Seta (6-)10-15(-22) mm long, yellowish; capsule suberect to inclined or almost horizontal, clavate to cylindrical-pyriform or occasionally smaller and pyriform, 2.5-3.5 mm long, yellowish, neck sulcate, to 1 mm long; exothecial cells subrectangular, walls ± wavy, 1-2 rows of transversely rectangular cells at mouth; peristome teeth 200-300 µm long, endostome with basal membrane 175-200 µm high, segments rudimentary; spores round, 16-18 µm, green, weakly papillose.
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Plants in loose turfs, yellowish green, glossy. Stems 2-10 mm long. Leaves erect-appressed, concave, ovate to ovate-acuminate, 0.5-0.8 mm long; margins entire; costa short-excurrent. Upper laminal cells fusiform to linear-rhomboidal; basal cells distinct, quadrate to short-rectangular. Capsule inclined to horizontal, clavate to cylindrical-pyriform; endostome segments rudimentary. Recognised by the light green, glossy plants with concave leaves, lax, elongate upper laminal cells and strongly differentiated basal cells.
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