Plants in dense mats, golden brown to reddish. Stems to 8 cm, irregularly to ± regularly pinnate, branches terete-foliate. Leaves erect, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-ovate, or broadly ovate, (0.8-)1-1.5 mm; margins plane or slightly recurved proximally, entire proximally, usually serrulate distally; apex acute or sometimes mucronate, rarely narrowly obtuse; costa double, short, often ending 1/4-1/2 leaf length; alar region ± abruptly differentiated, 1-stratose, reaching costa or not. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta reddish, 1-2 cm. Capsule long-cylindric, 2.5-4 mm; annulus 3-5-seriate, deciduous; operculum bluntly long-conic, slightly oblique; exostome teeth yellow-brown, external surface densely papillose, not perforate; endostome segments smooth to papillose. Spores 10-12 µm, smooth to finely papillose.
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