Plants fairly coarse to slender, densely to loosely caespitose or forming extensive patches or mats, dull, yellow, yellow-to olive brown, yellow-green to green, brown to blackish brown distally, brown to blackish brown proximally, sometimes brown or black throughout. Stems (1-)4-10 or, sometimes, as much as 20 cm, often with short, tuft-like, lateral branchlets. Leaves straight to somewhat curved, narrowly lanceolate to linear-or ovate-lanceolate, (1.5-)2.2-3.6(-4) × 0.5-1(-1.5) mm wide; margins entire throughout; apices gradually tapering to a straight acumen, acute to narrowly rounded-obtuse, entire distally; costa extending (2/3-)3/4-5/6 of the leaf length, (40-)50-70(-80) µm wide at the base, 2-stratose throughout; laminal cells long rectangular, (10-)20-60(-70) × (5-)7-8(-10) µm. Inner perichaetial leaves oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, yellowish hyaline throughout. Seta reddish to blackish brown, (2-)3-8(-11) mm. Capsule brown, ellipsoid, obloid to cylindric, (1-)1.2-2.5(-3.1) mm, smooth, lustrous, peristome teeth 550-600(-800) µm, reddish brown, densely spiculate-papillose, split nearly to the base into to 2 filiform prongs, with a low basal membrane. Spores 12-15(-17) µm.
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