Plants in thin to dense mats, yellowish, dark green, or brownish. Stems 2 cm, 0.5-2 mm wide, ascending to erect. Leaves loosely imbricate to somewhat spreading, often squarrose, sometimes squarrose-recurved, usually straight at stem and branch apices, not plicate, 0.6-2 × 0.3-0.8 mm; base distinctly decurrent; margins serrulate to strongly serrate; alar cells rounded to oval, abruptly inflated, 14-65 × 14-24 µm, hyaline, sometimes orange to red; basal laminal cell walls pitted, sometimes pitted to mid leaf or beyond; medial cells 24-50 × 4-7 µm. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta light brown to red, 0.9-2 cm. Capsule inclined to nearly erect, light brown, oblong to cylindric, slightly arcuate to straight, 1-2 × 0.3-0.5 mm, not or little contracted below mouth when dry; operculum conic to conic-apiculate, 0.3-0.4 mm. Spores 10-15 µm.
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