Plants to 35 cm, reddish, yellow-red, golden brown, or pale green. Stems medium to robust, rarely slender, rigid; stem and branch apices , loosely foliate, ; axillary hairs 600-750 µm, 6-10 cells, basal cell quadrate to short-rectangular, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline. Leaves strongly dimorphic. Stem leaves erect to erect-spreading when dry or moist, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, sharply or weakly keeled and conduplicate, , 4-7 mm; margins plane, sometimes erect to somewhat involute at apex; apex acute to narrowly obtuse; medial laminal cells 110-180 × 12-16 µm. Branch leaves erect-spreading when dry, spreading and sharply 3-ranked when moist, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, not keeled, concave to tubular-concave, 3-6 mm; margins involute; apex long-acuminate, acute, or somewhat rounded. Perigonia with leaves 0.7 mm. Perichaetia with leaves oval to suborbiculate, 2-3 mm, apex obtuse. Seta0.2-0.3 mm. Capsule immersed to slightly emergent, oblong to subcylindric, 2-2.5 mm; operculum conic, mm; endostome trellis perfect. Calyptra 2 mm. Spores 12-16 µm.
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