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Plants in hemispherical hoary cushions, grayish green. Stems 1-3 cm, central strand present. Leaves flexuose when dry, erect when moist, lanceolate, 1-1.7 × 0.3-0.6 mm, keeled, margin recurved on both sides nearly from base to apex, rarely only one margin recurved, abruptly contracted into short to long, smooth to denticulate awn, costa weak proximally, projecting on abaxial side; basal juxtacostal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, thin-walled; basal marginal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, thin-or thick-walled; medial laminal cells rounded-quadrate, slightly sinuose, thin-walled; distal laminal cells 1-stratose, margins 2-stratose. Gemmae absent. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta arcuate, 3-4 mm. Capsule usually present, exserted, ellipsoid to obloid, brownish and ribbed when empty and dry, exothecial cells thin-walled, annulus present, operculum rostrate, peristome teeth reddish, fully-developed, papillose. Calyptra mitrate.
Plants small, forming dense cushions, blackish to yellow-green. Stems 5-15 mm long. Leaves appressed, weakly spiralled when dry, unistratose; lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; apex acute to obtuse; margins bistratose to multistratose above; costa excurrent as smooth, hyaline awn. Upper laminal cells short-rectangular, sinuate. Capsule exserted, inclined to pendulous, ovoid, seta frequently curved; peristome teeth triangular; operculum short-rostrate.
