Plants in thin mats, light green to yellowish. Stems 3 cm, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, creeping. Leaves squarrose-spreading, sometimes erect-spreading, usually appearing distichous and complanate due to twisting of leaves to form 2 rows on opposite sides of stems and branches, not or weakly plicate, 1-2 × 0.3-0.7 mm; base not decurrent or sometimes 1-3 short cells indistinctly decurrent; margins serrulate to serrate; alar cells quadrate to short-rectangular on margins, sometimes 1 cell at extreme basal angle, rounded to oval and inflated, 14-34 × 9-22µm, green; basal laminal cell walls pitted, indistinctly pitted distally, sometimes pits absent; medial cells 43-80 × 3-6 µm. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta light brown to red, 1.2-2 cm. Capsule inclined, light brown, oblong to cylindric, slightly arcuate, 0.8-2 × 0.3-0.6 mm, contracted below mouth when dry; operculum conic to conic-apiculate, 0.3-0.4 mm. Spores 10-15 µm.
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