Plants 4-6 mm, light green. Leaves 2-3 mm proximally on the stem, distal leaves 4-5 mm, somewhat crowded distally, oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, narrowly acuminate, entire; costa ending in the slender apex; distal laminal cells thin-walled, oblong-hexagonal to rhombic-hexagonal, becoming longer proximally. Seta usually 20-25 mm, slender, hygroscopic, becoming twisted when dry. Capsule 1.5-2.5 mm, obovoid, strongly asymmetrical and curved, inclined to horizontal, becoming sulcate when dry; annulus revoluble; operculum low-conic, small, about 0.5 mm or less than half the diameter of the mature, undehisced capsule; peristome teeth brownish basally, slender, appendiculate in the distal hyaline portion; endostome a low, irregular membrane partially adherent to the teeth. Calyptra cucullate, rostrate, smooth. Spores 22-27 µm, papillose to finely bacculate-insulate.
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