Plants usually red-brown. Stems to 2.5 cm, central strand present. Stem leaves appressed to spreading when dry, strongly recurved and keeled when moist, monomorphic, ovate-triangular to ovate-lanceolate, adaxially grooved along costa, 0.8-2 mm, base scarcely differentiated in shape to ovate, margins nearly plane to recurved at mid leaf, usually entire, apex broadly acute, not fragile; costa percurrent to short-excurrent, weakly tapering and not much wider at the base, pad of cells absent, adaxial costal cells elongate, 2-4 cells wide at mid leaf, guide cells in 1 layer; basal laminal cells little differentiated, quadrate or very short-rectangular, walls thickened; distal laminal cells 11-15 µm wide, 1:1, papillae usually present, simple, often large and sharp, 1-3 centered over lumens, lumens angular, walls irregularly thickened, convex on both sides, 1-stratose. Specialized asexual reproduction specialized structures absent. Seta 0.6-1.2 cm. Capsule 0.7-1.5 mm; peristome teeth 16, linear, cleft to near base, nearly straight to twisted counterclockwise once, 275-600 µm. Spores 7-9 µm. Distal laminal KOH reaction red-or orange-brown.
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