Plants in tufts or gregarious patches, yellowish green. Stems to 0.6 cm, rarely to 1 cm, simple. Leaves crowded, erect-spreading to slightly secund, ± contorted, 3-7 mm, narrow filiform-subulate from an ovate to lanceolate base, lamina 2-stratose distally; margins plane to incurved, 1-stratose proximally, 2-stratose distally in subula, entire or slightly serrulate near the apex; costa broad, percurrent to excurrent, occupying the width of the subula near the apex, ca. 1/4 width of leaf at base, in cross section with an abaxial stereid band and a few adaxial stereids; distal lamina cells short-rectangular, becoming elongate and rectangular proximally, narrower and longer towards the margins; perichaetial leaves with a sheathing base. Specialized asexual reproduction unknown. Sexual condition autoicous; perigonia in small buds just proximal to the perichaetium. Seta yellow, 1-3 cm, erect to flexuose. Capsule erect to inclined, yellowish to yellowish brown, somewhat reddish brown with age, cylindric, 1.5-3 mm, weakly sulcate when dry; operculum short-rostrate, to about 1 mm; annulus narrow, dehiscent; peristome short, to 300 µm, the teeth irregularly perforate or divided proximally, with a narrow basal membrane, finely papillose distally, nodose proximally. Calyptra large, cucullate and twisted. Spores 20-30 µm, roughened, brown.
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