Plants large to robust, in loose cushions, dark green to yellowish green, blackish below; saxicolous. Stems erect, 60-70 mm high, branched above; in section round, central strand small, inner cortical cells large, thick-walled, outer cortical cells in 1-2 rows, stereids, reddish. Leaves erect-spreading to secund; ovate-subulate, 4.5-5.0 mm long; base rounded; margin entire below, serrate in subula, plane below, inflexed above, bordered from base to acumen by 1-2 rows of narrow, elongated cells. Costa weak, narrow, ending in apex or occasionally absent in some leaves; in section subround, guide cells 2, dorsal and ventral stereid bands 1(-2) cells thick, exposed. Upper laminal cells elliptical, incrassate, pitted, becoming longer toward base; basal cells oblong, strongly incrassate, pitted; border cells long-linear, hyaline, smooth, in cross section substereids; alar cells enlarged, reddish brown, quadrate to hexagonal or short-rectangular, to 8 cells high; basal juxtacostal cells reddish brown, oblong, incrassate, pitted, not enlarged. Perichaetia terminal, leaves sheathing, 6-7 mm long, apex obtuse. Seta erect, 15-20 mm long, red; capsule arcuate, 3 mm long, strumose, reddish; peristome teeth 16, orange, vertically striolate or papillose, occasionally perforated below, cleft to near middle, apical segments striolate, yellowish; operculum long-rostrate, 2 mm long; spores round, 12-15 µm.
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