Plants large to robust, loosely caespitose, yellow-green above, blackish below; saxi-colous. Stems 30-90 mm tall, branching below, frequently with reddish tomentum below; in section round, central strand very small, inner cortical cells in 5-6 rows, medium-sized, yellowish, outer cortical cells in 2-3 rows, smaller, stereids, dark red. Leaves twisted, curved dry, widely spreading to recurved wet, oblong to elliptical, setaceous, 7-12 mm long; base scarcely differentiated, rounded; margins inrolled to erect above, denticulate to dentate above. Costa 4/5 of width of leaf base, percurrent; in proximal section guide cells 46-60, small, ventral cells large, lax, completely covering guide cells, dorsal stereid groups small, of 2-3 cells, stereid groups separated by larger incrassate cells, dorsal surface flat; in distal section ventral cells smaller, dorsal stereid groups distinct, dorsal surface flat. Upper laminal cells small, quadrate, rectangular or rhomboidal, incrassate; basal cells weakly differentiated, large, rectangular to rhomboidal, incrassate, pitted; alar cells differentiated, thin-walled, reddish. Perichaetia terminal, polysetaceous, leaves convolute, oblong-setaceous, 8-12 mm long. Seta flexuose to cygneous, to 10 mm long, yellowish to red-brown; capsule arcuate, plicate dry; urn elliptical, to 2 mm long, strumose; exothecial cells rectangular, incrassate; peristome teeth 16, triangular, 0.4 mm long, cleft above, striate below, papillose, hyaline above; operculum rostrate, 1.3 mm long; calyptra cucullate, 2.5 mm long, fringed; spores round, 12-17 µm, weakly papillose.
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