Plants 1-3 cm, in olive green tufts, lighter above and brownish below, evenly foliate, tomentose. Leaves 4-5 mm, lanceolate, gradually narrowed into a subtubulose, straight, concolorous subula; alar cells slightly differentiated, reddish or hyaline; basal laminal cells hyaline, rectangular; distal laminal cells thick-walled, subquadrate to short-rectangular or oblique; costa filling half of the leaf width, excurrent in a short, hyaline tip, which is longer in perichaetial leaves, in transverse section showing adaxial hyalocysts and abaxial stereids in groups of 2 cells, abaxially ridged. Specialized asexual reproduction not seen. Sporophytes unknown.
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