Plants rather stiff and rigid, in loose tufts or mats, olivaceous to golden brown, occasionally blackish brown. Stems (1-)3(-17) cm, irregularly forked. Leaves imbricate, erect to secund when dry, ovate-elliptic, lingulate to oblong-lanceolate,(1.9-)2.3-3(-3.2) × 0.8-1.1 mm; margins 1-stratose throughout, recurved on both sides in the proximal 3/4, plane or often incurved at the apex giving it a subcucullate appearance; apices narrowly bluntly acute to broadly rounded, distantly bluntly or sharply erose-dentate to subentire, muticous; costa usually vanishing in mid leaf or sometimes extending 3/4 of the way up the leaf, frequently spurred and forked at the tip, (80-)90-180(-220) µm wide near the base; laminal cells 1-stratose throughout. Seta 8-11 mm. Capsule brown, obloid to shortly cylindric, 2-2.3 mm, peristome teeth 480-520 µm, orange-to yellow-brown, split nearly to the base into 2 filiform, densely papillose branches. Spores 14-17 µm.
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