Plants small, scattered, light green; terricolous. Stems 3-5 mm long. Leaves crowded and larger above, weakly contorted dry, wide-spreading wet; lingulate to narrowly obovate, 3.0-3.5 mm long; apex short-acuminate; base oblong; margins plane, entire. Costa short excurrent, mucro 0.2-0.3 mm long; in section round, guide cells 2, weakly thickened, ventral cells in single row, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band weak, 2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells similar to ventral cells, thin-walled. Laminal cells irregularly short-rectangular, thin-walled; basal cells rectangular, thin-walled. Seta 4-5 mm long, reddish yellow; capsule inclined, narrow-pyriform, 2-3 mm long, mouth wide, urn constricted below mouth when dry, neck differentiated, sulcate; exothecial cells rectangular to rhomboidal, incrassate, short rectangular to quadrate or hexagonal in neck, thin-walled, with 4 rows of transversely rectangular cells at mouth and 1-2 rows of larger, ± quadrate cells just below; stomata present on neck, subphaneropore; peristome absent; calyptra not seen, described as short-conic, subplano-convex; spores subround, 27-30 µm, brownish, vermiculate to bluntly papillose.
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Plants small, scattered, annual, occasionally perennial. Stems 2-4 mm long. Leaves weakly contorted when dry, lingulate to narrowly obovate, 3.0-3.5 mm long; apex short-acuminate; margins entire; costa short-excurrent. Upper laminal cells irregularly short-rectangular. Capsule inclined, narrow-pyriform, mouth wide, neck sulcate; peristome absent.
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