Plants rather robust or less often moderately sized, loosely tufted, coarse and rigid, slightly glist-ening, yellow, yellow-green, olivaceous, sometimes grayish, in the upper part, brown proximally. Stems 5-10(-15) cm, curved-ascending to erect, simple or sparingly, irregularly branched. Leaves erect-appressed to falcate-secund when dry, erect-spreading when wet, straight or curved, sometimes almost circinate, (3.5-)4-5.5(-6) × (0.5-)0.6-0.8(-0.9) mm; margins broadly recurved on one side and more narrowly on the other side to 1/3-1/2(-3/4) of the leaf length, 1-stratose throughout or seldom with some bistratose patches distally; pilose, awns hyaline, not flexuose, erect-recurved to squarrose, 0.4-1.5(-2.6) mm, rarely almost absent, flattened, with a distinct cell areolation, remotely sharply denticulate at the margins, distinctly decurrent; costa percurrent, strongly convex abaxially, reniform in the median and proximal portions, 75-100(-115) µm wide basally, 40-50 µm wide distally, 3(-5)-stratose basally with (3-)4-5 enlarged adaxial cells, 2(-3)-stratose distally, with 2-3(-4) enlarged adaxial cells; laminal cells 1-stratose throughout, smooth; basal laminal cells elongate, 25-55 × 9-11 µm, with incrassate, sinuose-nodulose lateral walls; alar cells not or slightly differentiated, sometimes slightly yellowish; supra-alar cells hardly differentiated, not forming a distinct basal marginal border; medial and distal cells rectangular, 12-35 × 5-7 µm. Inner perichaetial leaves (2-3) broadly ovate, convolute, yellowish haline, shortly obtusely pointed or pilose, with thick-walled, chlorophyllose distal cells. Seta 4.5-7.5 mm, straight, brown, twisted clockwise. Capsule obloid to short-cylindric, (1.2-)1.5-2.5 × 0.6-0.8 mm; operculum rostrate, straight, 1-1.5 mm; peristome teeth 250-480 µm, brown, deeply cleft into to branches, strongly papillose, erect. Spores 12-17 µm, granulose.
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