Plants small, (3.5-)6-9(-14) mm long, simple or branched, often tinged reddish-brown. Leaves curled inward from tips when dry, (0.5-)0.9-1.5(-1.7) mm long, usually numerous, oblong to lanceolate, acute; margins crenulate to serrulate on dorsal and ventral laminae, bordered on the vaginant laminae and adjoining parts of ventral laminae of all leaves, infrequently and irregularly on the dorsal lamina, the border unistratose, entire to distantly denticulate; costa strong, percurrent or short-excurrent; vaginant laminae + unequal; dorsal lamina truncate to rounded below, not decurrent; cells pluripapillose, many of them often unipapillose, small, (4-)5-6(-7) \im long, obscure, in cross-section ±2:1. Gonioautoicous and probably also rhizautoicous. Setae terminal on main stems and branches, l(-2) per perichaetium, (l-)2-3(-4.5) mm long, reddish-yellow; capsules usually erect and symmetric, (0.3-)0.5-0.6(-0.8) mm long; opercula long-rostrate; peristome finely papillose below, spirally thickened above. Spores (9-)11-13 pm, smooth. Calyptrae cucullate, ± papillose.
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