Plants to 100 cm, dark green to yellowish, sometimes reddish. Stems slender, rigid; stem and branch apices tightly long-attenuate; axillary hairs 250-300µm, 5-8 cells, basal cell quadrate, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline or reddish. Leaves monomorphic, flat when dry, imbricate to subimbricate when moist, , ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, concave, 2-4 mm; margins erect to incurved at base, usually reflexed proximally when dry, plane or erect to incurved at apex; apex acute or narrowly obtuse; medial laminal cells 60-140 × 4-8 µm. Perigonia with leaves 1-1.2 mm. Perichaetia with leaves ovate to suboval, 2.8-3.2 mm, apex acute or apiculate. Seta 0.1-0.2 mm. Capsule immersed, ellipsoid to oval, 1.5-2.5 mm; operculum obtuse-conic, 1 mm; endostome trellis imperfect. Calyptra 1.5-1.8 mm. Spores 20-50µm.
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