Plants large and rigid, forming extensive patches or loosely caespitose, olive or yellowish green, olivaceous, olive, golden, or rufous brown to blackish green distally, brown to blackish brown proximally, sometimes dark blackish green to black throughout. Stems (2-)4-10(-13) cm long, tough. Leaves oblong-or ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate, (2.1-)3-4.5(-5) × (0.8-)1-1.3(-1.5) mm; margins 1-or 2-stratose distally in several rows of cells, entire or sometimes sinuate or with a few blunt, irregular teeth at the apex; apices acute or obtuse; costa subpercurrent, (80-)100-200 µm wide at the base; laminal cells 1-stratose throughout or entirely to partially 2-stratose in the distal part, smooth or very slightly papillose on young leaves. Inner perichaetial leaves yellowish hyaline throughout. Seta brown, 4.5-7 mm. Capsule brown to reddish brown, symmetric or slightly curved and gibbous, obloid to cylindric, 1.8-3 mm, peristome teeth, lanceolate, 350-500 µm high, reddish or yellowish brown, finely papillose to nearly smooth basally, densely low-papillose distally, deeply 2-fid or tripartite down for two thirds of their length. Spores (10-)12-15(-17) µm.
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