Plants large, forming extensive, loose tufts, glaucous, grey-green to yellow-green; saxicolous. Stems julaceous, erect to pendent, to 70 mm long, branching irregular; in section round, central strand not well defined, inner cortical cells thin-walled, yellow, in 4-6 rows, outer cortical cells thick-walled, smaller, red-brown, in 2 or 3 rows; pseudoparaphyllia filamentous. Leaves crowded, patent wet, appressed with weakly spreading hyaline tips dry, concave, frequently secund in prostrate plants; broadly elliptical to ovate, 2.0-2.5 mm long; acuminate; apex hyaline, spinose papillate to almost smooth; weakly decurrent at base; margins plane to narrowly reflexed below, plane above or narrowly recurved at transition to hyaline acumen, entire; ecostate. Upper laminal cells irregularly rectangular, homogeneous, 10-25 µm long, 2-10 µm wide, walls incrassate, pitted, papillose on both surfaces; papillae single, centred over lumen, simple or branched; basal cells rectangular toward margins, linear in centre and strongly differentiated, 30-150 µm long, 6-12 µm wide, yellow to brownish, walls incrassate, pitted and irregular, papillose, papillae 2-6, seriate and centred over lumens; alar cells quadrate, brownish, walls thickened, smooth. Perigonial leaves ovate-acuminate, 1 mm long. Perichaetial leaves imbricate; oblong to elliptical, 2.5-3.5 mm long; acuminate; margins with long, hyaline, ciliate hairs; leaf cells irregularly rectangular to angular, incrassate above, rectangular below, thickened, pitted. Seta up to 1 mm long, yellow, smooth. Capsule immersed, erect, gymnostomous, oblate to cupulate, 1-2 mm long, smooth, yellow to yellow-brown; neck shorter than urn; exothecial cells ± rectangular to angular, walls thickened, cells at mouth becoming smaller, rounded and collenchymatous, in 10-15 rows, neck cells irregular rectangular, thin-walled; stomata not seen. Operculum convex and minutely beaked, 0.5 mm long. Calyptra small, cucullate. Spores rounded to angular, 22-26 µm, verruculose, brown.
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Leaves 1.5-3 mm; margins broadly recurved to 1/3 leaf length, narrowly recurved to apex on one or both sides, or plane mid leaf and plane, erect, and/or incurved in acumen on same plant, teeth in apex broad, irregularly papillose to smooth; apex erect, erect-spreading, or often secund when dry, broad and hyaline, muticous, or acuminate with acumen narrow-based, 1/10-1/5 leaf length, broadly or narrowly, shallowly or deeply channeled, extreme apex flat; medial and distal laminal cells with papillae (1-)2(-4), small, simple, sessile, or low-stalked, variously branched; laminal cells in hyaline area with papillae low, simple, in linear rows throughout or sparsely to coarsely and irregularly papillose proximally and smooth to minutely rounded-papillose distally; apical cell short-rhomboidal, obtuse to truncate, (40-)50-75(-80) µm, multipapillose-coronate. Perichaetia with leaves plane, margins long-ciliate distally. Vaginula sparsely to densely pilose. Calyptra naked, sparsely pilose proximally, or densely pilose throughout.
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