Plants 2-3 mm, yellowish. Leaves mostly variously contorted when dry, ovate to oblong or obovate, imbricate, somewhat concave, 0.5-1.2 mm; margins entire; apices broadly acute, often ending in a 1-2-celled apiculus; costa ending 4-7 cells before the tip; basal laminal cells rectangular, distal cells hexagonal to oblong-hexagonal, not differentiated at the margins. Seta 3.5-7 mm. Capsule short pyriform with neck shorter than the spore sac, 1-1.4 mm; exothecial cells thickened, narrowly oblong and transversely elongate in 5-7 rows proximal to the mouth; operculum planoconvex; peristome single, teeth narrowly lanceolate, finely papillose, or weakly papillose-striate below. Calyptra not seen. Spores 17-19 µm, finely papillose and angled.
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