Plants usually fairly soft, olivaceous, brown or yellow-, rusty orange to blackish brown, sometimes dirty olive yellow, golden to blackish green distally, brown to blackish brown prox-imally, sometimes brown, blackish brown to jet throughout. Stems 1-7(-10) cm tall. Leaves closely appressed and imbricate, erect, secund, erect-spreading to patent when dry, concave to cochleariform, broadly ovate, lingulate, elliptic, oblong or oblong-elliptic, (1.5-)2-2.5(-2.8) × 0.9-1.2 mm; margins 1-stratose, entire to subentire at the apex; apices very broadly rounded-obtuse and usually cucullate; costa ceasing at 1/2-3/4 of the way up the leaf, spurred and commonly forked at the apex, 75-100 µm wide at the base; laminal cells 1-stratose. Inner perichaetial leaves hyaline or with several thick-walled cells at the extreme apex or chlorophyllous throughout. Seta dark brown becoming black with age, fairly stout, 4-9 mm long. Capsule light to dark brown, obloid to shortly cylindric, 1.2-2 × 0.7-0.8 mm; peristome teeth lanceolate, 400-425 µm long, reddish brown, densely spiculate-papillose throughout, divided nearly to the base into 2, or often imperfectly into 3 terete, rather unequal prongs. Spores (13-)17-20 µm.
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