Plants 2-21 × 2-3 mm. Stem sparingly branched; axillary hyaline nodules absent; central strand present. Leaves in as many as 20 pairs, obovate to lanceolate, usually widest proximal to the middle, broadly acute to obtuse, often apiculate, 0.7-2 × 0.3-0.7 mm; dorsal lamina rounded-truncate proximally, ending at or sometimes before insertion; vaginant laminae ± 1/2-3/4 the leaf length, ± equal, minor lamina ending on or near margin; margin crenulate throughout or evenly serrulate distally, elimbate; costa ending 2-14 cells before apex, taxifolius-type; lamina cells 1-stratose, distinct, smooth, bulging, firm-walled, ± hexagonal, 10-18 µm. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonia and perichaetia on elongate stems. Sporophytes 1 per perichaetium. Seta 2-2.5 mm. Capsule theca erect, bilaterally symmetric, to 1 mm; peristome taxifolius-type; operculum 1 mm. Calyptra mitrate, smooth, 1.5 mm. Spores 16-23 µm.
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