Plants large and coarse, rigid, in loose tufts or mats, olive green and often grayish distally, brownish proximally. Stems 3-5(-7) cm, curved-ascending to erect, sparsely irregularly to subpinnately branched. Leaves erect-appressed when dry, erect-patent when moist, straight to falcate, rigid and somewhat fragile, 2.5-3(-3.5) × 0.5-0.9 mm; margins broadly recurved on one side throughout, narrowly recurved on the other side to the apex or somewhat proximally, variously 2-stratose in 1-2 cell rows in the distal half, sometimes with 1-stratose patches; piliferous, awns hyaline erect-recurved, stout and broad, not flexuose, 0.4-1.1 mm, sharply denticulate at the margins and strongly spinulose on the abaxial side, moderately decurrent; costa percurrent, very strong, prominently convex but flattened abaxially, canaliculate adaxially, (90-)100-120(-135) µm wide in the base, (60-)70-90(-100) µm wide near the apex, 3-stratose with 6-9 large adaxial cells in the basal and middle parts, 2-stratose near the apex with 5-8 adaxial cells; laminal cells 1-stratose, conspicuously pseudopapillose, strongly sinuose-nodulose; basal laminal cells elongate, 15-30(-50) × 9-14 µm; alar cells slightly differentiated, sometimes forming a small yellowish group; basal marginal border undifferentiated or composed of 10-12 slightly sinuose, thick-walled, not hyaline cells; medial and distal laminal irregularly isodiametric to short-rectangular, oblate at the margins, 7-20 × 7-10(-16) µm. Inner perichaetial leaves ovate-lanceolate, pilose, with distal chlorophyllose part and hyaline areolation. Seta brown 2.5-5.5 cm. Capsule brown, obloid-cylindric, 1.3-1.9 × 0.6 mm, wrinkled when dry; peristome teeth 230-470 µm, yellow-brown, irregularly papillose, irregularly cleft into 2-3 prongs, sometimes only perforated along the median line or undivided, arising from a low basal membrane, 10-15 µm high. Spores 14-17 µm.
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