Plants medium-sized, in dense tufts, light green when young, golden or brownish yellow with age. Stems to 10 cm, densely regularly pinnate, branches 5-7 mm, curved to almost circinate, secund from substrate. Stem leaves erect-appressed, triangular-lanceolate, (0.7-)1.5-2(-2.8) × (0.2-)0.5-0.7(-0.8) mm; base short-rounded, narrowly decurrent; margins plane or often recurved in places, serrulate or subentire; apex acuminate or gradually tapered; costa to 70-95% leaf length, terminal spine present; alar cells ovate, 6-7 µm wide, , region of 5-10 × 6-10 cells, moderately distinctly delimited, ; laminal cells linear-flexuose, 30-85 × 5-6 µm; basal cells irregularly long-ovate, region in 1-3 rows, indistinctly delimited from distal cells. Branch leaves appressed when dry, spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate, (0.5-)0.7-1.8 × (0.1-)0.2-0.4 mm; margins plane or recurved at places, serrulate or serrate proximally, entire or minutely serrulate distally, teeth recurved in alar region; apex acuminate; costa to 70-95% leaf length, variable within one shoot, terminal spine present; alar cells subquadrate or irregularly ovate, 7-10 µm wide, , region small, of 5-10 cells along submarginal fold, distinctly delimited; laminal cells linear-flexuose, 25-85 × 4-6 µm; basal cells in 1 (or 2) rows; distal cells smooth. Sexual condition phyllodioicous or dioicous. Seta 0.7-1.5 cm, rough proximally to almost throughout or smooth distally. Capsule inclined to horizontal, occasionally suberect, ovate-cylindric, curved, 1.8-2.5 mm; annulus separating by fragments; operculum long-conic; peristome hygrocastique; exostome teeth with long transitional zone; endostome basal membrane 40% endostome height, segments as long as exostome teeth, narrow, cilia almost as long as segments. Spores 10-17µm.
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