Plants gregarious or in dense mats, shiny golden yellow to yellow-green, rarely pale green. Stems 0.5-1 cm, weakly julaceous. Leaves erect when moist, triangular to ovate, concave, 0.5-1 mm; base concolorous; margins rarely recurved proximally or plane distally; apex acuminate to acute, not cucullate, not hyaline; costa long-excurrent, awn slender, pigmented; proximal laminal cells quadrate or short-rectangular, 12-18 µm wide, 1-2:1; distal cells elongate-hexagonal to vermicular, (50-)60-90 × 8-12 µm, (4-)6-8:1, walls thin to somewhat firm, not strongly incrassate. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Seta red, 1-2 cm. [Capsule brown, clavate to pyriform, 3-4 mm; hypophysis slender, not differentiated. Spores (8-)10-15 µm].
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