Plants small, gregarious, light green; terricolous. Stems 2-4 mm long. Leaves crowded above, appressed, little contorted dry, erect-spreading wet; broadly elliptical to obovate or occasionally ovate, 1.5-2.0 mm long, concave; apex acute to obtuse; base scarcely differentiated, margins plane to broadly incurved above, entire. Costa ending below apex; in section guide cells 2, exposed ventrally, dorsal stereid band small, 2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells similar in size to guide cells, weakly thickened. Laminal cells rectangular, thin-walled, rhomboidal or occasionally rhombic near apex; marginal cells narrower and bulging but not forming distinct border; basal cells rectangular. Seta to 4 mm long, reddish yellow; capsule erect, pyriform, 1.2-1.5 mm long, urn subglobose, neck very short; exothecial cells rectangular, thickened, with 2-3 rows of quadrate cells at mouth; peristome single, rudimentary and often missing on deoperculate capsules, teeth oblong, irregular, striate; operculum plano-convex, cells not twisted; spores round, 25 µm, reddish brown, weakly papillose.
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Plants small, gregarious, annual, occasionally perennial. Stems 2-4 mm long. Leaves appressed or slightly contorted when dry; broadly elliptical to obovate or ovate, 1.5-2.0 mm long, concave; apex acute to obtuse; margins plane to broadly incurved above, entire; costa ending below apex. Upper laminal cells rectangular, narrower and bulging towards margins. Capsule erect, pyriform, neck very short; peristome single, rudimentary and often missing; operculum plano-convex, cells not twisted.
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