Plants 2-6 mm, green to yellow-green, leaves crowded at the tip. Leaves few and scale-like prox-imally, distal leaves 1.5-3 mm, oblong-lanceolate to ovate or occasionally oblong-ovate, nar-rowed to a slender acuminate tip to about 1/6 the leaf length, entire to serrulate distally and entire proximally, costa ending at the base of or before the acumen; distal laminal cells short-rhomboid to rhomboid-hexagonal, becoming oblong-rectangular proximally and narrowing at the basal margins. Seta 5-15 mm, reddish, nearly straight. Capsule 2-3 mm, inclined, asymmetric, pyriform with the neck as long as the spore sac, scarcely wrinkled and little contracted below the mouth when dry; annulus none; operculum conic-rounded; peristome teeth linear-lanceolate, reddish brown basally, hyaline at the tips, strongly trabeculate and appendiculate, papillose-striate throughout; endostome segments narrowly lanceolate and about 2/3 the length of the teeth, papillose. Calyptra cucullate, long-rostrate. Spores 21-30 µm, baccate insulate.
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