Plants soft, yellow or yellow-green, with or without rusty mottling distally, older extremities dirty or reddish brown to reddish black. Stems to 9 cm, leafy throughout, often denuded basally, irregularly branched; hyalodermis absent, epidermal cells small, walls thick, similar to subadjacent cortical cells, central stand strong. Leaves usually tumid-julaceous, sometimes spreading, straight, never falcate, usually little changed when dry or moist, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, deeply concave, almost boat-shaped in apex, (0.9-)1.4-1.6(-1.9) × (0.4-)0.6-0.7(-0.9) mm; margins narrowly recurved especially in distal 1/3 and apex, entire to uneven in apex; apex acute to slightly obtuse, becoming reflexed as squarrose apiculus; costa double and long with one arm reaching mid leaf, single to mid leaf or beyond, or double and short; alar cells quadrate, short-rectangular, or rectangular, region clearly differentiated; basal laminal cells shorter, wider, ; medial cells uniformly long linear-flexuose, (55-)65-90(-105) µm; apical cells usually shorter; marginal cells rarely longer than 55 µm. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial inner leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, . Seta reddish, 0.7-1.6 cm. Capsule with endostome cilia (2 or) 3.
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