Growing scattered or in loose mats; stem with weak central strand; rhizoids basal and axillary, hyaline to pale brown, smooth; axillary cells weakly differentiated; slightly heterocaulous; vegetative stems unbranched, 2.2-3.0 x 1.0 mm, pinnate; leaves distant, 11-16 pairs, slightly crispate or inflexed when dry, elliptical, elliptical-lanceolate, elliptico-oblong, acute less often broadly acute to obtuse, 0.35-0.80 x 0.17-0.23 mm, L/W 2.5-3.5, margin subentire to weakly and irregularly crenulate, elimbate or infrequently with a weak limbidium of a few elongated cells near the insertion of the vaginant laminae (vaginant lamina of upper and mid leaves of perichaetial stems partly or completely limbate with intramarginal or marginal, unistratose limbidia); vaginant lamina 3/5 the leaf length, unistratose, slightly open to almost completely open; in perichaetial leaves sometimes open; dorsal lamina narrow and slightly rounded at the insertion, reaching the insertion or not, not decurrent, dorsal and apical laminae unistratose; costa ending 2-4 cells below the apex; mid dorsal laminal cells clear, hexagonal, plane, smooth, 9.5-14.5 x 8.0-11.0 µm; mid vaginant laminal cells hexagonal to oblong, 8.0-17.5 x 5.0-1.0 µm; vagi nant laminal cells of perichaetial stems frequently inflated, 17.0-51.0 x 8.0-16.0 µm.Fertile parts. Perigonia, perichaetia and infrequently synoicia. Perigonia terminal on short stems at base of perichaetial stems and terminal on branches, male stems budlike or longer, 0.4-3.5 mm long; antheridia 150-270 µm long; perichaetia and synoicia terminal, occasion-ally a few archegonia in axils of subperichaetial leaves; perichaetial and synoicial plants similar, unbranched to strongly branched, variable, 2.5-4.0x 1.0-2.0 mm, with 6-10 pairs of distant leaves (crowded in the perichaetium); perichaetial leaves 1.0-1.2 mm long with broadly acute to rounded obtuse apices; archegonia 220-350 µm long. sporophyte, seta 3-6 mm long, smooth,1-2 per perichaetium; capsule slightly inclined or erect, 0.6-0.9 x 0.35-0.55 mm, 62 columns of oblong exothecial cells; peristome bryoides type, tooth base 32-64 µm wide; operculum rostrate, 0.3-0.4 mm long; calyptra smooth, 0.4 mm; spores 17.5-3.0 µm long, papillose. 0.3-0.4 mm long; calyptra smooth, 0.4 mm; spores 17.5-33.0 µm long, papillose.
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Plants small to medium, yellowish green. Stems 1-5 mm long. Leaves ± distant, lanceolate to elliptical, 0.6-1.2 mm long; apex rounded to acute, cuspidate; margins entire to serrulate, weakly limbate or elimbate, limbidium occasionally restricted to a few cells on vaginant laminae; costa subpercurrent to percurrent. Vaginant laminae slightly unequal. Upper laminal cells hexagonal, smooth. Capsule erect to inclined, short-cylindrical.
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