Plants in dense to loose patches, yellowish green to dark green. Stems 2-4 cm, central strand present. Leaves loosely appressed, slightly twisted when dry, erecto-patent when moist, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, tapering to acute apex, 2-3.5 × 0.3-0.4 mm, usually sharply keeled, margins recurved on one or both sides, plane to erect distally, awns variable, short to long, smooth to denticulate, not conspicuously flattened at base, costa firm, projecting on abaxial side; basal juxtacostal laminal cells long-rectangular (rarely short-rectangular), ± nodulose, thick-walled; basal marginal laminal cells short-to long-rectangular, with thickened transverse walls; medial laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, slightly sinuose, thick-walled; distal laminal cells 1-stratose, occasionally with 2-stratose ridges. Gemmae clusters occasionally present in distal leaf axils. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta arcuate, 2-4 mm. Capsule occasionally present, exserted, oblong-ovoid, yellowish green to stramineous, striate when dry, exothecial cells thin-walled, annulus present, operculum rostrate, peristome teeth yellowish, papillose, deeply split and perforated. Calyptra mitrate.
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