Plants medium-sized to rather large, coarse and rigid, loosely or densely caespitose, somewhat lustrous, dark green, olivaceous to yellow-or brownish green in the distal part, brown proximally. Stems (1-)2-5(-7) cm, creeping, curved-ascending to erect, irregularly branched or almost simple. Leaves erect-appressed when dry, erect-patent when moist, straight to curved, ovate-lanceolate, carinate distally, broadly canaliculate proximally, 2.2-3 × (0.5-)0.7-1 mm; margin broadly recurved to 2/3-3/4 of the way up the leaf on one side, more narrowly recurved to mid leaf on the other side, 1-stratose, entire; apices acute to narrowly obtuse, muticous, usually with minute teeth owing to protruding cell ends; costa subpercurrent to percurrent, in transverse section strongly convex abaxially, (70-)80-120(-160) µm wide near the base, 50-65 µm distally, 2-stratose in the distal and median parts, with 2-4 enlarged adaxial cells, reniform, 2-3(-4)-stratose, with 3-6(-7) adaxial cells proximally; laminal cells 1-stratose throughout, smooth to pseudopapillose; basal laminal cells elongate, 35-65 × 7-9 µm, sinuose-nodulose, moderately thick-walled; alar cells usually differentiated in 3-5 cell rows, thick-walled, porose, yellowish brown to orange, enlarged, quadrate to short-rectangular; supra-alar cells scarcely differentiated or undifferentiated, not forming a marginal border; medial laminal cells rectangular, 25-40 × 7-9 µm; distal laminal cells isodiametric, quadrate, oblate or rounded-quadrate to short-rectangular, 7-15 × 7-9 mm. Inner perichaetial leaves strongly differentiated, ovate, hyaline. Seta brownish, 5-8.5 mm. Capsule brown, obloid-to long-cylindric, 2-3.7 × 0.45-0.7 mm; operculum straight, 1-1.5 mm; peristome teeth 300-600 µm, deeply 2-fid, papillose, erect to widely flaring when dry, arising from a fairly short, 40-50 µm, basal membrane. Spores 14-21 µm.
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