Plants medium-sized to large, caespitose, red to reddish green or green to yellowish green above, yellowish brown or reddish brown to brown below, frequently shiny; terricolous or saxicolous. Stems 5-55 mm tall, simple or branching by innovations, occasionally tomentose below; rhizoids red-brown, coarsely papillose, tubers rare, 140-300(-1000) µm, red to red-brown. Leaves crowded or occasionally distant below, generally equidistant, about equal in size, appressed to erect when dry, erect to erect-spreading when wet, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong to elliptical, frequently concave, 1-3 mm long; apex acuminate to rounded-obtuse, occasionally cucullate; margins plane to revolute, entire or crenulate to denticulate at apex; border absent. Costa ending below apex to short-excurrent, reddish or yellowish to brown; in section subround to round, laminal insertion ventral, ventral surface cells incrassate, dorsal stereid band strong, stereids in 2-4 rows, dorsal surface cells incrassate or substereids, hydroids present between stereid band and guide cells. Upper laminal cells short-rhomboidal to linear-rhomboidal or vermicular, occasionally pitted, frequently incrassate, (32-)37-63(-98) µm long, (7-)10-15(-20) µm wide; basal cells rectangular to quadrate, frequently orange or yellow to brown, frequently pitted, occasionally bulging below, walls frequently thickened. Dioicous, sporophytes rare. Perichaetia terminal; leaves lanceolate or triangular, 1.0-1.4 mm long, cells linear-rhomboidal to vermicular. Seta 13-40 mm long, red to reddish brown; capsule pendulous, clavate or pyriform, red to reddish brown, urn 1-2 mm long, neck frequently wrinkled when dry, 0.5-1.2 mm long; exothecial cells irregular in shape, incrassate, smaller towards mouth; peristome double, exostome teeth narrowly oblong-acuminate, yellowish brown below, hyaline above, minutely papillose, endostome segments tapered above, broadly perforated, cilia 2-3, nodose to appendiculate, basal membrane high, yellowish, minutely papillose; operculum mammillate; calyptra cucullate; spores 17-23 µm, minutely papillose.
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Plants medium-sized to large, frequently reddish green, shiny. Stems 5-55 mm long. Leaves crowded, appressed to erect when dry, generally narrowly ovate, frequently concave, 1-3 mm long; apex mostly acuminate; margins plane to revolute, crenulate to denticulate above; border absent; costa ending below to short-excurrent. Upper laminal cells generally linear-rhomboidal, incrassate. Capsule pendulous, red to reddish brown.
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