Plants medium-sized, dark green to golden green or nearly black. Stems 4-8 cm, red-brown to nearly black, procumbent to suberect, usually regularly pinnate, branches 0.2-1.5 cm; hyalodermis present, central strand poorly differentiated; pseudoparaphyllia foliose, broad. Stem leaves falcate, curved downward toward substrate, ovate-lanceolate, , tapering to apex, 1-1.5 × 0.4-0.5 mm; base weakly decurrent; margins plane, entire to sinuate proximally, often sharply serrate toward apex; acumen narrow; costa usually indistinct; alar cells , region well defined, 2 or 3 cells high, 3 or 4 cells wide, ; basal laminal cells shorter, wider than medial cells, yellowish to brownish, especially adjacent to hyaline alar cells, walls porose; medial cells 40-60 × 3-4 µm. Sexual condition dioicous; . Seta red-brown when mature, 2-4.5 cm. Capsule nodding when mature, red-brown, cylindric, 3-4.5 mm; annulus 1-or 2-seriate; operculum conic; endostome cilia rudimentary.
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