Plants large, occasionally quite small, in loose to moderately dense mats, usually pale stramineous, occasionally light green, very rarely deep green. Stems to 10(-16) cm, creeping to ascending, terete-foliate, irregularly pinnate, branches to 8 mm, straight to flexuose, terete-foliate. Stem leaves erect-appressed, , closely imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, broadest at 1/7-1/5 leaf length, concave, not or slightly plicate, (1.3-)1.7-2.8 × (0.4-)0.6-1.1 mm; base tapered, broadly or occasionally narrowly long-decurrent; margins plane or often recurved almost throughout, entire, rarely serrulate; apex gradually tapered to acumen, ; costa to 40-70% leaf length, slender, terminal spine absent; alar cells subquadrate to short-rectangular, small, 15-30 × 11-15µm, walls moderately thick, region , of 10-15 × 6-8 cells; laminal cells linear, 40-100(-125) × 5-9µm; basal cells 10-15 µm wide, region in 3 rows. Branch leaves similar, smaller. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta reddish orange, 1-2 cm, smooth. Capsule inclined to horizontal, reddish orange, elongate, curved, 2 mm; annulus separating by fragments; operculum long-conic. Spores dimorphic: 15-18 µm or 11-13 µm; these two types are in proportion 1:1, as tetrads have two big and two small spores.
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