Plants small to medium-sized, scattered or gregarious, light green to yellow-green; terricolous. Stems 2-4 mm long. Leaves larger and crowded above, spirally contorted dry, wide-spreading wet; broadly elliptical to obovate or subspathulate, (1.5-)2.0-3.5 mm long; apex acute to short-acuminate; base oblong or scarcely differentiated; margins plane, crenulate to denticulate. Costa ending below apex to almost percurrent, in section round, guide cells 2, thin-walled, ventral cells in single layer, 2, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band small and weak, 2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells similar to guide cells, weakly thickened. Laminal cells rectangular or rhomboidal at apex; basal cells rectangular. Seta (5-)8-10 mm long, yellowish brown; capsule asymmetrical, erect to inclined with oblique mouth to arcuate with mouth vertical,1.5-2.5 mm long, yellow-brown, neck short, well defined; exothecial cells on convex surface rectangular, thickened, but irregular and shorter on concave surface, on neck short-quadrate to angular, thin-walled; stomata present on neck, phaneropore; peristome double, exostome teeth narrowly triangular, perforated, 0.3 mm long, occasionally somewhat irregular, not twisted, coarsely striated, reddish yellow, endostome rudimentary, weakly papillose, yellow; operculum plano-convex, cells not twisted; spores rounded, 23-32 µm, red-brown, strongly papillose to vermiculate.
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