Stems 10-30 mm, central strand absent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 mm, apices acute to short-acuminate, mucronate to hair-pointed; margins plane; costa percurrent to long-excurrent, smooth distally; laminal cells quadrate to subhexagonal, 12-20 µm; basal cells rectangular, 20-70 µm, smooth; basal marginal cells not differentiated. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Seta 8-10 mm, reddish brown. Capsule cylindric, 2.5-3 mm, ribbed, brown to brownish red, ribs dark red; peristome single, reddish brown, teeth lanceolate 0.5 mm high, papillose, occasionally with a preperistome ring of very short and stubby projections, papillose, erect and brittle; operculum 0.5 mm. Calyptra 3-4 mm, entire to erose at base, smooth to papillose proximally, papillose on rostrum. Spores 35-40 µm, warty, brown.
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