Plants to 12 × 1.5-3.5 mm. Stem branched; axillary hyaline nodules absent; central strand present. Leaves as many as 28 pairs, sometimes ± undulate, oblong, obtuse-apiculate to acute, to 2.4 × 0.3-0.4 mm; dorsal lamina narrowed proximally, ending before or at insertion; vaginant laminae 1/2-2/3 leaf length, acute, ± unequal, minor lamina ending near margin; margin evenly crenulate-serrulate but irregularly serrate distally; costa ending 6-16 cells before apex, covered and obscured above by chlorophyllose cells, taxifolius-type; lamina cells irregularly 2-stratose, smooth, bulging, firm-walled, irregularly rounded-hexagonal, 7.5-10 µm. Sexual condition gonioautoicous and cladautoicous; perigonia gemmiform, axillary, and on short branches; perichaetia on short axillary branches near proximal ends of stem. Sporophytes 1 per perichaetium. Seta 1.5-5.5 mm. Capsule theca 0.8-2.1 mm, erect, radially symmetric or nearly so; peristome taxifolius-type; operculum long rostrate, 0.6-0.9 mm. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, 1.5 mm. Spores 13-18 µm.
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