Plants to 4.5 × 1.5 mm. Stem unbranched; axillary hyaline nodules present; central strands absent. Leaves as many as 10 pairs, ligulate to lanceolate, acute, usually apiculate, to 1.8 × 0.25 mm; dorsal lamina narrowed proximally, ending at insertion, not decurrent; vaginant laminae ± 1/2 leaf length, acute, ± unequal, minor lamina ending near margin; margin ± evenly crenulate-serrulate, elimbate except for weak limbidium on proximal parts of vaginant laminae of perichaetial leaves; costa percurrent to ending as many as 5 cells before apex, bryoides-type; laminal cells 1-stratose, distinct, smooth, often strongly bulging, firm-walled, irregularly quadrate to hexagonal, 8-11 µm, larger and ± oblong juxtacostally in proximal parts of vaginant laminae. Sexual condition rhizautoicous and gonioautoicous. Sporophytes 1 per perichaetium. Seta to 5 mm. Capsule theca exserted, erect, radially symmetric, to 0.6 mm; peristome bryoides-type; operculum 0.5 mm. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, 0.5 mm. Spores 11-16 µm.
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