Plants in cushions or mats, yellow-green, glaucous-green to dark green, sometimes almost black. Stems 1-1.2(-1.5) cm, central strand weak. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1-1.8 × 0.2-0.6 mm, keeled, not plicate, margins plane proximally, incurved distally, awn 0.3-0.8 mm, costal transverse section prominent, semicircular; basal juxtacostal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, straight, thick-walled; basal marginal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, straight, thick-walled, 1-2 rows hyaline or not hyaline; medial laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, straight, thin-walled; distal laminal cells 2-stratose, bulging or not, marginal cells 2-stratose. Sexual condition dioicous, perichaetial leaves not enlarged. Seta straight, 2-3 mm. Capsule occasionally present, exserted, yellow to brown, ovate to oblong-ovate, exothecial cells quadrate to short-rectangular, thick-walled, stomata absent, annulus of 1 row of quadrate, thick-walled cells, operculum conic to mammilate with a short obtuse beak, peristome present, fully-developed, split and perforated in distal half.
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