Plants with metallic luster when dry. Stems and branches adherent to soil by rhizoids, much branched; hyalodermis 1-stratose, median cell walls firm; sparsely radiculose. Leaves with costa slender; basal laminal cells oblong or rhomboidal; medial cells oblong-hexagonal, 29-40 µm wide, 1.5-2:1; marginal cells linear, concolorous, in 1 row, walls thin. Perichaetial leaves ovate to lanceolate, small. Seta 1.1-1.6 cm, somewhat sinuate. Capsule ± asymmetric; exothecial cells not collenchymatous. Calyptra rostrate, scarcely longer than operculum.
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