Plants 3-8 mm, yellow-brown to dull green. Leaves erect-flexuose to subsecund, 1-2 mm, narrowly lanceolate, gradually tapered to a narrow, blunt or rounded, usually serrulate tip; margins ± recurved, often strongly so; costa subpercurrent, sometimes ± rough abaxially above, about 1/4 the leaf base; cells subquadrate to short-rectangular. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta yellow becoming brown or reddish with age, 5-7mm. Capsule erect and symmetric, oblong-ovoid to subcylindric, 0.8-1 mm, smooth, usually ± contracted below the mouth when dry and empty; annulus compound; operculum long-rostrate, inclined, about as long as the urn; peristome teeth 250-290 µm, divided more than 1/2 length distally. Spores 16-20 µm, finely papillose.
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