Plants dark green, densely gregarious, curled downwards when dry. Stems to 8 mm long, occasionally branched; in section with a well-developed central strand; rhizoids basal only. Leaves in 5-15 pairs, often somewhat recurved when moist, circinate when dry, broadly oblong-lanceolate, 1.0-1.5 mm long, 0.35-0.50 mm wide; apex acute, somewhat retrorse; limbidium narrow, 1-4(-8) cells wide, unistratose to bistratose, often failing near the apex, narrow and sometimes obscure in dorsal and apical laminae, broader in the vaginant laminae and proximally intramarginal with a broad vitta of laminal cells, disappearing basally shortly above insertion; vaginant laminae very broad, reaching 2/3-3/4 leaf length, open and gaping; dorsal lamina tapering to the base, not decurrent; margins irregularly serrulate near the apex and, occasionally, the proximal part of the vaginant laminae, elsewhere entire; lamina cells strongly convex, firm-walled, rounded-hexagonal to pentagonal, 5-8 µm wide, smooth to obscurely bipapillose, basally larger and clearer; costa of bryoides-type, strong, percurrent to short-excurrent.Dioicous. Perichaetia terminal; perichaetial leaves longer than vegetative leaves. Setae to c. 5 mm long. Capsules short-oblong, horizontal, asymmetrical, c. 1 mm long; exothecial cells quadrate to short-rectangular, 15-35 µm long, shorter near the rim, relatively thick-walled, collenchymatous; lateral walls thicker than end walls. Operculum rostrate, c. 0.5 mm long. Calyptra not seen. Peristome of bryoides-type. Spores green, (20-)24-30(-31) µm diam.
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