Plants gregarious or in dense mats, hoary white. Stems 0.5-1(-1.5) cm, evenly foliate, weakly julaceous. Leaves erect-spreading when moist, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, somewhat concave, 0.3-1(-1.5) mm; base concolorous; margins recurved proximally, plane distally; apex acute, not cucullate, hyaline in distal 1/2 of leaf; costa long-excurrent, awn slender, hyaline, ; proximal laminal cells quadrate or short-rectangular, 10-16 µm wide, 1-2:1; distal cells elongate-hexagonal, 40-60 × 10-16 µm, 4-5:1, walls somewhat thickened to distinctly incrassate. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Seta brown to red-brown, 1-2 cm. Capsule brown to red-brown, ovate, (1-)2-3 mm; hypophysis differentiated, somewhat thickened and rugose. Spores 8-15 µm.
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