Plants 1.4-1.6 × 0.5-1 mm. Stem unbranched; axillary hyaline nodules present; central strand absent. Leaves as many as 9 pairs, lanceolate, acute to obtuse-apiculate, to 0.5-1 × 0.1-0.2 mm; dorsal lamina narrowed prox-imally, ending at insertion or slightly before; vaginant laminae 1/2-2/3 leaf length, ± unequal, minor lamina ending near margin; margin ± entire, elimbate or irregularly limbate, limbidium best developed on perichaetial and subtending leaves, limbidial cells 1-stratose, infrequently 2-stratose; costa ending 2-3 cells before apex to percurrent, bryoides-type; laminal cells 1-stratose, smooth, slightly bulging, firm-walled, irregularly hexagonal, 9-11 µm, many slightly longer than wide. Sexual condition rhizautoicous and gonioautoicous; perigonia gemmiform, proximal to infertile and fertile stems, and axillary. Sporophytes 1 per perichaetium. Seta 2-23.5 mm. Capsule theca exserted, erect, radially symmetric to ± arcuate, bilaterally symmetric; peristome bryoides-type; operculum 0.2 mm. Calyptra and spores not seen.
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