Plants 4-15 mm, dirty to light green or yellowish. Leaves erect-spreading or ± falcate-secund, to 2 mm, gradually narrowed from a lanceolate base to a linear-lanceolate, ± keeled limb, blunt or acute at a narrow tip; margins irregularly recurved above the basal portion of the leaf, entire except at the extreme apex; costa percurrent; distal cells oblong-linear, ca. 6-9:1. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta red or pale, reddish yellow, 5-8(-16) mm. Capsule 0.7-1 mm, shortly ovoid, erect or more often inclined to horizontal, curved-asymmetric, smooth, not strumose at base, contracted below the mouth; annulus none; operculum 0.5-0.7 mm, stoutly rostrate; peristome teeth 330-410 µm, divided 1/3 of its length distally. Spores 14-20 µm, smooth or indistinctly roughened.
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