Plants soft, green, yellow, or yellow-green, dark brown, usually only youngest parts yellow to yellow-green. Stems to 2 cm, usually shorter, denuded basally, irregularly branched; hyalodermis absent, epidermal cells small, walls thick, similar to subadjacent cortical cells, central strand absent. Leaves somewhat distant, straight or falcate and squarrose-canaliculate distally, little different when dry or moist, shrinking laterally and margins slightly involute with concomitant twisting in apex when dry, usually ovate, sometimes ovate-lanceolate, broadly concave proximally, (0.3-)0.5-0.9(-1.1) × (0.2-)0.3-0.5(-0.9) mm; margins narrowly recurved proximally, less often plane, coarsely to finely serrulate, most conspicuously distally, or entire; apex acute to somewhat acuminate; costa usually double, short, slender; alar cells quadrate, short-rectangular, or irregular, region not or scarcely differentiated; basal laminal cells similar to or wider than medial cells, ; medial cells short-fusiform to long linear-flexuose, (17-) 25-50(-69) × (3-)4-5(-6) µm; apical cells similar, few cells may be papillose abaxially by means of over-riding end walls; marginal cells somewhat shorter. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial inner leaves lanceolate, . Seta yellowish red to red, 1-1.7 cm. Capsule with endostome cilia 2 or 3.
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