Plants large, in moderately dense tufts, green, occasionally brownish with age. Stems to 15 cm, regularly pinnate, branches to 10 mm, circinate when dry. Stem leaves erect when dry, ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.8 × 0.8-1.2 mm; base slightly narrowed, narrowly decurrent; margins plane or recurved, serrulate or entire; apex acuminate; costa to 70-90% leaf length, terminal spine absent; alar cells ovate, 6-9 µm wide, , region of 15-25 × 15-25 cells, distinctly delimited, ; laminal cells elongate, 30-65(-80) × 4-8µm; basal cells irregularly long-ovate, region in 2-5 rows, indistinctly delimited from distal cells. Branch leaves erect-appressed when dry, erectopatent when moist, ovate-lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, 1.8-2.5 × 0.7-0.9 mm; margins recurved almost throughout, serrulate to entire; apex gradually tapered or broadly acuminate; costa to 70-100% leaf length, terminal spine absent; alar cells ovate, 6-9 µm wide, region of 10-15 × 10-18 cells, distinctly delimited; laminal cells elongate, 30-60 × 4-7µm; basal cells in 1-3 rows; distal cells smooth. Sexual condition phyllodioicous. Seta 1.1-1.7 cm, rough. Capsule erect or nearly so, cylindric, straight, 3-4 mm; annulus unknown; operculum unknown; peristome xerocastique; exostome teeth striolate proximally, papillose distally; endostome basal membrane high, segments as long as exostome teeth, narrow, cilia short, less than 1/4 segment length. Spores 16-21 µm.
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