Plants small, loosely caespitose, green to yellow-green above, brownish below; terricolous. Stems 3-6 mm high, simple; in section round, central strand small, inner cortical cells in 3-4 rows, outer row slightly smaller, weakly thickened. Leaves appressed dry, erect-spreading wet; linear-lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 mm long; apex obtuse, weakly cucullate; base scarcely differentiated, oblong; margins broadly incurved or convolute dry, serrulate at apex. Costa short-excurrent as yellowish, smooth or denticulate awn, of width of leaf base; in proximal section guide cells 6-10, ventral cells few, over central guide cells, incrassate or substereids, dorsal stereids in small groups separated by larger, incrassate cells, dorsal surface rough; in distal section ventral cells absent or 1-4 over central guide cells, dorsal stereid groups separated by larger incrassate cells, dorsal surface with single incrassate cells projecting below stereid groups. Upper laminal cells short-rectangular to rhomboidal, incrassate, smooth; basal cells moderately differentiated, slightly larger, rectangular, thin-walled; alar cells not differentiated. Sporophytes not known in Southern Africa; described by Mitten as: Perichaetial leaves undifferentiated. Seta flexuose; capsule pendulous, buried, small, oval; peristome delicate, incomplete; operculum conic-rostrate; calyptra small, base fimbriate.
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