Plants brown proximally, yellowish green or yellowish brown to dark green distally, glossy, in loose to dense tufts. Stems 2-8(-14) cm, radiculose proximally with reddish brown rhizoids. Leaves falcate-secund, especially at stem apices, sometimes erect and flexuose, spreading at ca. 30º when wet, 5-10 mm, occasionally deciduous, somewhat abruptly narrowed from an ovate to oblong base into a setaceous subula, subtubulose proximally, channeled distally, margins entire proximally, serrate to serrulate near apex, apex acute; costa distinct, occupying ca. 1/5-1/3 of leaf base; cells thick-walled and pitted only in leaf base, distal cells linear, 24-56 × 5-9 µm, basal cells broadly rectangular, hyaline, ca. 16 µm wide, alar cells not forming auricles, thin-walled, hyaline. Seta 8-11 mm, erect-sinuose to cygneous. Capsule 1-1.8 mm; operculum straight, ca. 1 mm. Spores 16-17 µm.
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