Plants to 120 × 6 mm. Stem usually profusely branched; axillary hyaline nodules absent; central strand absent. Leaves in numerous pairs, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, frequently somewhat falcate, acute, to 7 × 0.6 mm; dorsal lamina narrowed proximally, usually ending before insertion; vaginant laminae 1/3-1/2 the leaf length, unequal, minor lamina usually rounded and free distally or narrowed and ending on or near costa; margin ± entire, elimbate; costa ending 15-35 cells before apex, bryoides-type; laminal cells usually 1-stratose, sometimes 2-stratose juxtacostally, quadrate to short-oblong to hexagonal, smooth, slightly bulging, ± firm-walled, 15-23 × 10-18 µm in dorsal and ventral laminae, juxtacostal cells largest. Sexual condition gonioautoicous and cladautoicous; perigonia and perichaetia on short axillary branches, 1-5 per leaf axil, sometimes on elongate, axillary branches. Sporophytes 1-5 per leaf axil, inconspicuous. Seta 0.5-0.6 mm. Capsule theca 0.5-0.6 mm, erect, radially symmetric; peristome anomalous, irregularly divided, ± incomplete, often truncate, papillose; operculum as long as seta. Calyptra mitrate, smooth. Spores 18-27 µm.
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