Plants medium-sized to large, in dense or loose tufts, light green to golden or brownish yellow. Stems to 5 cm, moderately densely pinnate, branches 5-7 mm, curved and secund from substrate. Stem leaves erect-appressed, ± homomallous, triangular-lanceolate, (1.3-)1.8-2.4 × (0.4-)0.6-0.8 mm; base short-rounded, narrowly decurrent; margins plane or often recurved at places, serrulate, ; apex acuminate or gradually tapered, ; costa to 60-80% leaf length, terminal spine absent, occasionally present; alar cells ovate, 6-9 µm wide, region of 10-16 × 10-15 cells, moderately distinctly delimited; laminal cells linear, 40-85 × 5-6 µm; basal cells irregularly ovate, short, region in 1-3 rows, indistinctly delimited from distal cells. Branch leaves appressed to erect when dry, spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate, 1-2 × 0.2-0.5 mm; margins plane or recurved at places, serrulate or serrate proximally, entire or minutely serrulate distally; apex acuminate; costa to 60-85% leaf length, terminal spine sometimes present; alar cells subquadrate or irregularly ovate, 7-10 µm wide, region small, of 2-5 cells along margins, indistinctly delimited; laminal cells linear-flexuose, 40-90 × 4-7 µm; basal cells in 1 (or 2) rows; distal cells smooth. Sexual condition phyllodioicous or dioicous. [Seta 1-2 cm, rough. Capsule erect, cylindric, straight or slightly curved, 2-3 mm; annulus separating; operculum long-conic, short-rostrate; peristome hygrocastique; exostome teeth papillose to base; endostome basal membrane moderately high, segments as long as teeth, narrow, cilia very short. Spores 15-19 µm].
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