Plants relatively robust, 2-11 cm, in loose, light-green or yellow, ± shiny tufts. Leaves not crowded, 2.5-3 mm, abruptly narrowed to a narrow, squarrose limb from an erect, oblong or obovate base, subtubulose and generally ± twisted-crispate when dry, concave when moist, often cucullate at a rounded though often narrow apex, decurrent at base; margins erect, irregularly crenate at the extreme tip; costa subpercurrent, smooth abaxially; distal cells elongate, 4-9:1, the basal cells longer, yellow at the insertion, often ± differentiated at extreme basal angles. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 10-30 mm, dark red. Capsule 1-1.5 mm, curved-inclined, smooth; annulus present or absent; operculum stoutly conic-rostrate; peristome teeth ca. 500-650 µm, divided about 1/2 way distally, vertically papillose-striolate. Spores 16-25 µm, smooth or papillose.
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