Plants 1.5-6 × 1 mm. Stem unbranched and branched; axillary hyaline nodules present; central strand present. Leaves as many as 16 pairs, oblong to lanceolate, acute to short-acuminate, to 1.3 × 0.25 mm; dorsal lamina narrowed proximally, ending well above or at insertion; vaginant laminae ± 4/5 leaf length, ± equal, minor lamina ending on or near margin; margin ± entire to crenulate-serrulate, limbate on all laminae, limbidium variable, developed best on vaginant laminae, ceasing well before apex, limbidium cells 1-stratose; costa ending 2-5 cells before apex to percurrent, bryoides-type; laminal cells 1-stratose, distinct, smooth, somewhat bulging, firm-walled, irregularly quadrate to hexagonal, 9-14 µm, increasing somewhat in size and ± oblong in proximal parts of vaginant laminae. Sexual condition rhizautoicous; perigonia gemmiform, proximal to fertile and infertile stems, and as branches along horizontal parts of stems. Sporophytes 1 per perichaetium. Seta 2-6 mm. Capsule theca exserted, erect, radially symmetric, 0.5-1.25 mm; peristome anomalous, variable, even in same theca, teeth undivided, imperfectly divided or divided 4/5 their length, papillose distally, smooth proximally; operculum 0.22-0.3 mm. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, to 0.45 mm. Spores 20-26 µm.
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