Plants in dense tufts or mats, green to dark green to brownish green. Stems 0.3-1 cm. Leaves loosely imbricate, somewhat contorted when dry, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, concave and often somewhat cucullate, (0.35-)0.5-0.9(-1.5) mm, margins plane to weakly recurved, often only at mid-leaf, and entire to, rarely, weakly toothed distally, apices obtuse; most costae ending before apex; medial laminal cells (9-)12-16(-22) µm, thin-walled to somewhat thickened. Seta (0.9-)1.5(-2.5) cm, red. Capsule ovate-cylindric to, occasionally, ovate, (0.9-)1-1.2(-1.5) mm, strongly sulcate when dry; peristome segments free at their nodes, finely papillose, dark red with pale borders to, rarely, completely pale. Spores (18-)19-21(-22) µm.
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