Plants to 7 × 2.5 mm. Stem unbranched and branched; axillary hyaline nodules absent; central strand absent. Leaves as many as 12 pairs, oblong to lingulate, broadly acute to obtuse, sometimes apiculate, to 1.4 × 0.5 mm; dorsal lamina narrowed proximally, ending at insertion, not decurrent; vaginant laminae ± 1/2 leaf length, ± unequal, minor lamina ending near margin; margin crenulate-serrulate but limbate and entire on proximal 1/3-1/2 of vaginant laminae of most leaves, limbidial cells 1-stratose; costa ending 2-6 cells before apex, bryoides-type; lamina cells 1-stratose, distinct, mammillose, firm-walled, irregularly hexagonal, 7-12 µm, smooth, larger, ± oblong, pellucid juxtacostally in proximal parts of vaginant laminae. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Sporophytes 1 per perichaetium. Seta to 2 mm. Capsule theca exserted, erect, radially symmetric, 0.5 mm; peristome scariosus-type; operculum 0.4 mm. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, 0.3-0.5 mm. Spores 10-16 µm.
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