Plants 3-10 mm, silky, yellowish. Leaves loosely erect to falcate-secund, to 2 mm, lanceolate, gradually subulate; margins erect, sometimes finely denticulate at the extreme apex and obscurely denticulate near junction of base and blade; costa long-excurrent; lamina disappearing in the distal 1/3-1/2 of the limb, with cells long-rectangular, 30-40 × 4-5 µm (7-8:1). Sexual condition dioicous. Perichaetial leaves to 3 mm, flexuose-spreading to squarrose, abruptly subulate from an oblong-sheathing base, finely erose or denticulate at the shoulders. Seta 9-13 mm, reddish, becoming dark with age. Capsule 0.7-1 mm, inclined or nodding, asymmetric, striate, not strumose; annulus compound; operculum ca. 1 mm, slenderly curved-rostrate from a conic base; peristome teeth 400 µm, divided 1/2 way length distally. Spores 16-18 µm, minutely roughened.
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