Plants in hoary cushions, yellow-green to dark blue-green, sometimes almost black. Stems 1-1.2(-1.5) cm, central strand weak. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 × 0.3-0.6 mm, concave-keeled, not plicate, margins plane, usually narrowly incurved distally, awn 0.2-1.3 mm, costal transverse section not prominent to prominent, semicircular; basal juxtacostal laminal cells short-to long-rectangular, straight, thick-walled; basal marginal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, straight, thick-walled, not hyaline; medial laminal cells rounded, thick-walled; distal laminal cells 2-stratose, not bulging, marginal cells 2-stratose, not bulging. Sexual condition dioicous, perichaetial leaves not enlarged. Seta straight, 2-3 mm. Capsule occasionally present, exserted, yellow to brown, oblong, exothecial cells rectangular, thin-walled, stomata absent, annulus of 1 row of quadrate, thick-walled cells, operculum rostellate, peristome present, fully developed, split and perforated in distal half.
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