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Plants 1.2-10 × 1-2.5 mm. Stem unbranched and branched; axillary hyaline nodules present; central strand weak or absent. Leaves as many as 25 pairs, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to sharply acute to short acuminate, to 1.9 × 0.3; dorsal lamina narrowed proximally, ending before or at insertion, infrequently ± decurrent; vaginant laminae 1/2-4/5 leaf length, ± equal, minor lamina ending on or near margin; margin entire, limbate on all laminae, limbidium confluent at apex or ending shortly before apex, extending to base of dorsal lamina, limbidial cells 2-3-stratose; costa percurrent to excurrent, bryoides-type; laminal cells 1-stratose, distinct, smooth, ± bulging, firm-walled, elongate, 7-22 × 4-13 µm, increasing in size toward proximal part of leaf. Sexual condition rhizoautoicous; perigonia gemmiform, proximal to infertile and fertile stems. Sporophytes 1 per perichaetium. Seta to 12 mm. Capsule theca exserted, ± erect, radially symmetric to inclined, arcuate, bilaterally symmetic, 0.35-1.25 mm; peristome bryoides-type; operculum 0.25-0.3 µm. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, 0.5 mm. Spores 11-18 µm.
