Plants small to medium-sized, rather slender but stiff, rarely robust, forming loose or dense cushions, tufts or mats, dull, variable in color, olive or yellowish green, yellowish or orange-brown to olivaceous distally, brown to blackish brown proximally. Stems (0.5-)1.5-4.5(-8) cm tall, erect to ascending, rarely prostrate, usually sparingly branched to almost unbranched. Leaves erect-appressed when dry, erect-patent to spreading when moist, lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, broadly canaliculate to carinate, (1.2-)1.5-2.3(-2.8) × 0.4-0.8 mm; margins broadly recurved to 1/2-3/4 the leaf length on one side, narrowly and shortly recurved or plane on the other side, 2(-3)-stratose for 1(-4) cell rows and somewhat bulging to 1-stratose in the distal half; epilose or terminating in a hyaline awn, awns stout, denticulate to crenate, erect to erect-recurved, 0.15-0.4 mm; costa subpercurrent to percurrent, strongly convex on the abaxial surface, in tranverse-section semi-terete, (50-)60-85(-100) µm wide at the base, 40-55 µm wide near the apex, 3(-4)-stratose in the middle and at the base, with 3(-4) enlarged adaxial cells, 2(-3)-stratose with 2-3 adaxial cells distally; laminal cells 1-stratose with occasional 2-stratose strands near the apex, smooth to pseudopapillose; basal laminal cells elongate, (15-)25-50(-55) × 8-10 µm wide, with thickened, sinuose-nodulose lateral walls; alar cells not or only slightly differentiated, usually yellowish; basal marginal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, pellucid, with moderately thickened and mostly sinuose walls, forming an indistinct border of (2-)5-10(-15) cells; medial and distal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, mixed with oblate (5-)10-20(-25) × 5-10(-12) µm. Inner perichaetial leaves ovate-lanceolate, usually pilose. Seta yellow to brown, 2-3.5 mm. Capsule brown, dull to glistening, ovoid, obloid to obloid-cylindric, smooth, (0.7-)1.1-1.6 × 0.4-0.65 mm; operculum conic, with a straight or slanted beak; peristome teeth 280-410 µm, orange-yellow to reddish brown, papillose, usually variously cleft into 2-3 prongs in the distal half or only perforated to undivided, with a low basal membrane, 35-50 µm high. Spores (10-)12-16(-18) µm.
Home