Plants in thin mats, yellow-green. Stems to 5 cm, subpinnate, branches terete-foliate. Leaves erect to spreading, oblong-lanceolate, slightly plicate, 1.2-2 mm; margins plane, subentire proximally, ± serrulate distally; apex slender acuminate; ecostate or costa double, short; alar region ± abruptly differentiated, 1-stratose, not reaching costa. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta yellow, 0.5-1.5 cm. Capsule cylindric, to 1.4-2 mm; annulus 3-or 4-seriate, persistent; operculum bluntly short-rostrate; exostome teeth reddish, external surface densely papillose throughout, not perforate; endostome segments densely papillose. Spores 16-21 µm.
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