Plants to 20 cm. Stems with innovations usually forming ascending series of flat, frondose tiers, fronds 20-35(-50) mm wide (1-pinnate, fronds as narrow as 8 mm in reduced arctic-alpine forms). Stem leaves 1-1.7 mm wide; acumen long, crimped (reduced forms ovate, 1-1.8 × 0.7-1 mm; apex rounded to obtuse or often abruptly acute); medial laminal cells 30-70 × 4-6 µm. Primary branch leaves erect-spreading, ovate to elliptic, concave, 0.8-1.3(-2) × 0.3-0.6(-0.9) mm; margins reflexed basally, broadly incurved near apex; apex short-acuminate, bluntly acute, or obtuse. Branchlet leaves ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, concave, 0.3-0.8 × 0.2-0.4 mm. Seta 0.5-2.5 cm. Capsule mostly bent horizontal at neck, ovoid to ellipsoid, neck distinct, 1.7-2.8 mm.
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