Plants medium-sized to large, caespitose, green to reddish green above, brownish or red-brown below; terricolous or saxicolous. Stems (3.0-)18-42 mm tall, frequently densely tomentose below, red, branching by innovations; rhizoids red-brown, coarsely papillose, tubers not seen. Leaves crowded above, frequently distant below, twisted to spirally twisted around stem dry, erect-spreading wet, elliptical or ovate-lanceolate or ovate, (0.8-)1.8-2.5(-4.2) mm long; apex acuminate; margins decurrent, frequently red, plane above, plane to revolute below, denticulate at apex; Border strong, cells in (2-)4-8 rows, linear, incrassate, frequently red below. Costa percurrent to short-excurrent, yellowish or red; in section subround to round, laminal insertion ventral, ventral surface cells differentiated, dorsal stereid band strong, stereids in 2-4 rows, dorsal surface cells incrassate, hydroids present between stereid band and guide cells. Upper laminal cells short-rhomboidal to hexagonal, (22-)32-45(-68) µm long, (10-)17-22(-25) µm wide, pitted; basal cells rectangular, frequently red below, pitted. Filamentous gemmae absent. Dioicous or synoicous, sporophytes infrequent. Perichaetia terminal, leaves lanceolate to triangular, 0.7-1.5 mm long, cells incrassate, elongate towards apex, border weak. Seta 16-32 mm long, yellowish or red-brown; capsule pendulous, straight, clavate, yellowish or brownish or red-brown, urn 1.2-2.8 mm long; neck wrinkled when dry, 0.9-2.0 mm long; exothecial cells irregular rectangular, incrassate, shorter above, in 1-2 transverse rows at mouth; peristome double, exostome teeth yellowish or orange, minutely papillose, endostome segments tapered above, broadly perforated, cilia 2-4, appendiculate, basal membrane high, smooth to minutely papillose; operculum conical, apiculate; calyptra not seen; spores 12-21 µm, smooth to granulose.
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Plants medium-sized to large, caespitose. Stems 3-42 mm long, densely tomentose below. Leaves crowded above, twisted to spirally twisted around stem when dry; narrowly ovate, up to 4.2 mm long; apex acuminate; margins decurrent, frequently red, denticulate at apex; border strong, cells in 2-8 rows; costa percurrent to short-excurrent. Upper laminal cells short-rhomboidal, pitted. Capsule pendulous.
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