Stems 10-25 mm, central strand absent. Leaves ligulate to lingulate or narrowly lanceolate, 3.5-5.5 mm, apices broadly acute to rounded, mucronate to apiculate, margins irregularly recurved or sometimes plane; costa excurrent to percurrent or subpercurrent; laminal cells 9-14 µm; basal cells rectangular, 40-110 µm, papillose more or less in rows across leaf above; basal marginal cells not differentiated, papillose. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Seta 6-19 mm, dark red. Capsule cylindric, 3-4 mm, smooth, yellowish brown, exothecial cell walls rectangular, thickened; peristome double, yellowish brown, 16 teeth, linear-lanceolate, 0.5 mm, papillose, erect, endostome without basal membrane, fused to teeth, papillose, almost as long as teeth; operculum 2 mm. Calyptra 5-7 mm, lacerate at base, papillose from apex to mid body. Spores 20-26 µm, warty-papillose yellowish brown.
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