Plants small, scattered, light green to yellow-green; terricolous. Stems 2-5 mm long. Leaves crowded above, in a rosette, weakly contorted dry, widespreading wet; elliptical to obovate, 2-4 mm long; apex acute to apiculate; margins plane, entire or marginal cells bulging above. Costa short-excurrent, mucro to 0.5 mm long; in section guide cells 2, thin-walled, ventral surface cells 2, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band 2-6 cells thick, reddish, dorsal surface cells smaller than guide cells, incrassate. Laminal cells short-rectangular, thin-walled, becoming rhomboidal near apex; basal cells rectangular. Seta 5-10 mm long, reddish brown; capsule erect to inclined, cylindrical to obconical, 3-4 mm long, reddish brown, mouth very broad, urn constricted below mouth when dry, neck differentiated; exothecial cells oblong-hexagonal, incrassate, with 4-6 rows of transversely rectangular cells at mouth; peristome very rudimentary or absent; operculum plano-convex, cells not twisted; spores subround 20-25 µm, brownish, papillose.
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Plants small, scattered, annual, occasionally perennial. Stems 2-5 mm long. Leaves rosulate, weakly contorted when dry; elliptical to obovate, 2-4 mm long; apex acute to apiculate; margins entire or cells bulging; costa short-excurrent. Upper laminal cells short-rectangular, thin-walled. Capsule erect to inclined, cylindrical to obconical, mouth very broad; peristome very rudimentary or absent; operculum plano-convex, cells not twisted.
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