Plants in loose or occasionally dense mats, yellow-green to brownish yellow. Stems to 10 cm, spreading to ascending, pinnate, branches terete-foliate. Leaves erect, oblong-ovate, 1.5-2 mm (branch leaves 1-1.3 mm); margins incurved distally, entire; apex rounded-obtuse; ecostate or costa double, short; alar region abruptly differentiated, 2-or 3-stratose, not reaching costa. Sexual condition dioicous. [Seta reddish, 1.3-2.5 cm. Capsule cylindric, 2-2.5 mm; annulus 2-or 3-seriate, persistent; operculum conic, obliquely short-rostrate; exostome teeth reddish, external surface cross striolate proximally, obliquely to vertically striolate mid tooth, finely papillose to smooth apically, not perforate; endostome segments smooth. Spores 11-14 µm].
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