Plants to 12 cm, green to yellowish, brownish at base. Stems with axillary hairs 180-220 µm, basal cell 1, quadrate, distal cells 3 or 4, long-cylindric. Leaves weakly 3-ranked, strongly falcate to circinate at stem and branch apices, linear-lanceolate, 4-5 mm, medial stem leaves 0.4-0.8 mm wide; margins plane, entire; apex filiform-acuminate; costa long-excurrent; alar cells not or slightly enlarged; medial laminal cells 60-110 × 4-8 µm. Perichaetia with leaves not or rarely overtopping capsule. Seta 4-12(-20) mm. Capsule emergent or short-exserted, oblong-cylindric to cylindric, 1-3 mm; operculum conic, 1-1.5 mm; exostome teeth spiculose-papillose; endostome yellowish brown to orange-red, spiculose-papillose, trellis perfect. Calyptra 3-5 mm. Spores 10-17 µm.
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