Plants in dense mats, bright to yellow-green, sometimes tinged golden brown. Stems to 6 cm, subpinnate, branches complanate-foliate. Leaves erect to erect-spreading, broadly oblong-ovate, 2 mm (branch leaves 1.5-1.8 mm); margins plane, entire proximally, serrulate and often notched distally; apex gradually acute; costa double, short; alar region ± abruptly differentiated, 1-stratose, not reaching costa. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta reddish, 0.7-2 cm. Capsule cylindric, 2-3 mm; annulus 1-3-seriate, deciduous; operculum long-conic to bluntly obliquely rostrate; exostome teeth reddish, external surface coarsely papillose proximally, finely papillose apically, often perforate; endostome segments smooth to slightly roughened. Spores 13-20 µm.
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