Stems to 5 cm. Leaves to 3 mm, long ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed from a broadly ovate base, apex blunt or sometimes acute; margins somewhat recurved, 2-stratose only in the distal portion of the leaf; laminal cells both mammillose and spinose (strongly mammillose-papillose) on both surfaces, distal leaf cells thin-walled, irregularly rounded quadrate, ca. 10 µm wide. Perigonium sessile. Seta ca. 1.5 cm, curved-cygneous when wet, nearly straight when dry. Capsule straight and erect, not strumose; annulus weakly developed, of small persistent cells.
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