Plants in dense tufts, green to yellowish green, dull. Stems 3-7 cm, densely tomentose with reddish brown rhizoids. Leaves erect-spreading, strongly cirrate to crisped when dry, smooth, (4-)5-6.5(-8) × 0.5-1 mm, concave below, tubulose above, lanceolate, acute; margins entire below, slightly serrate to entire above; laminae 1-stratose; costa excurrent, 1/6-1/4 the width of the leaves at base, smooth or weakly toothed above on abaxial surface, abaxial ridges absent, with a row of guide cells, two stereid bands extending to the apex, adaxial and abaxial epidermal layers of cells differentiated; cell walls between lamina cells slightly bulging; leaf cells smooth to slightly rough above on abaxial surface; alar cells 2-stratose, differentiated, sometimes extending to costa; proximal laminal cells rectangular, pitted, (19-)37-55(-73) × (5-)9-12(-14) µm; distal laminal cells short, irregularly quadrate-rectangular, not pitted, (7-)11-12(-23) × (6-)8-9(-13) µm. Sexual condition pseudomonoicous; dwarf males on stem rhizoids of female plants; interior perichaetial leaves abruptly short-acuminate, convolute-sheathing. Seta 1.3-3 cm, solitary, yellowish to yellowish brown. Capsule 2-4 mm, long-cylindric, arcuate and inclined to ± straight and nearly erect, smooth, striate when dry, yellowish brown; operculum 1.5-2.5 mm. Spores 14-24 µm.
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