Plants medium-sized, scattered, yellow-green; terricolous. Stems 2-4 mm long. Leaves crowded and larger above, appressed dry, wide-spreading wet; elliptical to broadly elliptical or obovate, 2.0-3.2 mm long; apex abruptly or gradually apiculate to piliferous; base not difrentiated; margins plane, entire. Costa ending below apex; in section bulging dorsally, guidecells 3, thin-walled, ventral cells in single row,larger than guide cells, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band small, 1-2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells small, incrassate. Laminal cells rectangular, thin-walled; basal cells larger, rectangular. Seta 6 mm long, red-brown; capsule horizontal, clavate, 4 mm long, red-brown, neck not strongly differentiated, nearly smooth; exothecial cells rectangular to rhomboidal, strongly incrassate, in base shorter, quadrate to hexagonal, thin-walled, with 4 rows of transversely rectangular cells at capsule mouth; stomata present at base of neck; peristome absent; operculum flat, cells not twisted; spores rounded, 25 µm, brownish yellow, weakly papillose with tetrad scar (probably immature).
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