Plants small, scattered, light green to yellow-green; terricolous. Stems 1-2 mm long. Leaves larger and crowded above, contorted dry, widespreading wet; elliptical to obovate, 2-3(-4) mm long; apex acute to obtuse or occasionally rounded; base not differentiated; margins plane, entire to weakly serrate above, bordered by 1-2 rows of elongated, incrassate cells. Costa ending just below the apex; in section round, guide cells 2, small, thin-walled, ventral cells in single row, 2, small, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band small, 1-2 cells thick, reddish yellow, dorsal surface cells incrassate. Laminal cells short, oblong-hexagonal to rectangular or occasionally quadrate, thin-walled; marginal cells narrower, elongate, incrassate; basal cells rectangular, thin-walled. Seta 6-11 mm long, reddish yellow; capsule erect, elliptical to short-cylindrical, 1-2 mm long, neck differentiated, urn frequently constricted under mouth when dry; exothecial cells rectangular, thickened, becoming shorter to quadrate in neck, with 4-8 rows of transversely rectangular to quadrate cells at mouth, thickened; stomata on neck, phaneropore; peristome single, irregular, teeth ± oblique, triangular, 175 µm high, irregularly perforated and absent with age, striate below, granulate above, reddish yellow; operculum plano-convex, short-apiculate, cells weakly twisted, counter clockwise; spores subround, 20-25 µm, light brown, vermiculate.
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