Plants small to medium-sized, caespitose, yellowish green or reddish green above, brownish below; terricolous. Stems 5-15 mm tall, frequently branching by subperichaetial innovations, densely tomentose below, red to reddish brown; rhizoids red-brown, coarsely papillose, tubers absent. Leaves frequently in successive comal tufts, smaller below, frequently concave, imbricate to erect, slightly twisted when dry, erect to erect-spreading when wet; oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong (1.1-)1.5-2.3(-2.7) mm long; apex acuminate; margins generally recurved to re volute, entire to denticulate at apex; border indistinct. Costa long-excurrent, awn 0.2-0.8 mm long, entire to denticulate above, reddish below; in section subround to round, laminal insertion ventral, ventral stereid band absent, ventral surface cells present, dorsal stereid band strong, stereids in 3-5 rows, dorsal surface cells incrassate, hydroids present between guide cells and stereid band. Upper laminal cells rhomboidal, infrequently pitted, (35-)40-67(-73) µm long, (10-)12-15(-19) µm wide, narrower towards margin; basal cells rectangular, frequently reddish below, pitted. Dioicous. Perichaetia terminal, leaves lanceolate to triangular. Seta 13-30 mm long, yellowish to reddish to reddish brown; capsule pendulous, oblong-cylindrical to clavate, yellowish to yellowish brown or reddish brown, frequently contracted below mouth when dry, urn 1-2 mm long, neck wrinkled when dry, 0.5-1.2 mm long; exothecial cells irregular rectangular, incrassate, smaller towards mouth, 1-3 rows at mouth transversely elongated; stomata on neck, phaneropore; peristome double, exostome teeth narrowly oblong-acuminate, yellowish, hyaline above, finely papillose, endostome segments tapering above, perforated, cilia 2-3, appendiculate, basal membrane high, yellowish or hyaline, smooth or minutely papillose; operculum conic, apiculate; calyptra cucullate; spores yellowish brown, 15-28 µm, minutely papillose.
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