Plants moderately sized, growing in dense turfs, dull, olivaceous distally, brown proximally. Stems 3-4 cm. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 2.5-3 × 0.7-0.8 mm; margins entire proximally, cristate or papillose-crenulate at the apex, variously infolded in the acumen; apices shortly acuminate, with a fine, corrugate and wavy acumen, acute; costa single but often laterally spurred distally, disappearing in mid leaf, 40-60 µm wide near the base, 2-stratose throughout, with 6-9 large adaxial epidermal cells; basal and medial cells long and linear, up to 150 µm, distal cells rectangular to long-rectangular, (25-)30-80 × 6-8 µm. Seta dark brown, 4-8 mm. Capsule brown, obloid to cylindric, 1.5-2 mm; peristome teeth 640-760 µm, yellow-or orange-brown, split to the base into 2 filiform prongs, densely papillose. Spores 14-20 µm.
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