Plants mostly robust and coarse, loosely tufted or forming intricate patches, yellow, green, yellow-, grayish or olive green distally, brown to blackish brown proximally. Stems 5-12 cm or sometimes to 20 cm, sometimes with short, lateral tuft-like branchlets. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, from an ovate, plicate base, (2.5-)3-3.7(-4) × 1-1.2(-1.5) mm; margins entire; apices slenderly or broadly acuminate, piliferous or muticous, subacute to narrowly rounded-obtuse, awns hyaline, 0.1-0.75(-1.2) mm, erect to recurved, flattened, finely and irregularly spinulose-denticulate or denticulate; costa percurrent or subpercurrent, 75-100(-110) µm wide at the base, in transverse section 2-stratose in the distal portion, 3-4-stratose in the proximal part; basal laminal cells long-rectangular, (20-)35-60(-75) × 5-8 µm; medial laminal cells becoming elongate, (20-)30-45(-50) × 7-8 µm; distal laminal cells mostly short-rectangular, (8-)13-20(-30) × 7-8 µm. Inner perichaetial leaves oblong-lanceolate, longitudinally plicate, 2.2-2.5 × 0.9-1 mm, hyaline. Seta dark brown, (0.6-)1.2-2(-2.2) cm. Capsule brown or yellowish brown, lustrous, cylindric, (2.5-)3-4.2 × 0.8-1 mm, smooth or somewhat sulcate when old and empty; peristome teeth dark reddish brown, 1-1.8 mm long, faintly papillose to nearly smooth, regularly split nearly to the base into 2, thread-like, terete, equal or unequal branches. Spores 12-15 µm.
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