Plants in loose to dense tufts, yellowish to dark green, glossy to dull. Stems 1.5-4.5 cm, sparsely tomentose with whitish to reddish brown rhizoids. Leaves erect-spreading or somewhat falcate-secund, rigid, erect below and flexuose above when dry, smooth, (3-)4-6(-7) × 0.5-0.8 mm, most of the leaf tips broken off, concave below to canaliculate above, from a lanceolate base to a long-acuminate, acute apex (when present); margins entire, sometimes slightly denticulate at apex; laminae 1-stratose or with some 2-stratose regions in patches between margin and costa; costa excurrent, 1/5-1/4 the width of the leaves at base, smooth or slightly rough on abaxial surface in distal half, abaxial ridges absent, with a row of guide cells, two weakly developed stereid bands above and below, not extending above the leaf middle, adaxial and abaxial epidermal layers of cells not differentiated or with a few cells enlarged in both layers; cell walls between lamina cells not or weakly bulging; leaf cells usually smooth; alar cells 1-stratose or with a few 2-stratose regions, well-differentiated, often extending to costa; proximal laminal cells rectangular to short-rectangular, not pitted or with few pits, (11-)33-42(-51) × (7-)9-10(-13) µm; median laminal cells regularly quadrate, not pitted, (9-)15-22(-26) × (5-)7-8(-11) µm; distal laminal cells small, quadrate, not pitted. Sexual condition dioicous; male plants as large as females; interior perichaetial leaves abruptly long-acuminate, convolute-sheathing. Seta 1-1.6 cm, solitary, yellow to reddish brown. Capsule 1.5-2.5 mm, straight, erect, smooth, slightly furrowed when dry, brown to reddish brown; operculum 1-1.5 mm. Spores 9-22 µm.
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