Plants dorsiventral, soft, flaccid, somewhat contorted when dry, whitish to light green or pale yellow. Stems 1-5(-7.5) cm, fleshy, succulent, sparsely and irregularly branched; cortical cells large, central strand distinct; paraphyllia absent; pseudoparaphyllia filamentous or absent; rhizoids few, on leaf apices, hyaline to brown, unbranched; axillary hairs hyaline, of 2-4 cells. Leaves ovate, oblong-ovate, elliptic, or broadly lanceolate, 2-4.5(-6) mm; base somewhat decurrent; laminal cells broadly oblong-hexagonal, oblong-rhomboidal, or short-rectangular, 100-200 (-250) µm, pellucid, walls thin, sometimes heteromorphic with smaller cell-pairs scattered throughout leaf; distal cells sometimes smaller; marginal cells elongate. Seta (0.8-)1-2(-2.5) cm, flexuose-curved, stout. Capsule oblong-cylindric or ellipsoid, 1.5-2 mm, neck short; exothecial cells subvesiculose; stomata in neck, phaneropore; annulus 1-or 2-seriate, weakly deciduous, cells large; operculum conic, long-rostrate; exostome teeth dark red, trabeculate, bordered, cross striolate basally, papillose distally; endostome pale, finely papillose, segments narrowly perforate on keel. Calyptra shortly conic-mitrate, 2-2.5 mm. Spores (10-)12-17 µm, smooth to scarcely or minutely papillose.
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