Plants small to medium-sized, rusty brownish to yellowish (occasionally dark green). Stems 2-5 cm, yellow-green, erect, suberect, or creeping, regularly to irregularly pinnate, branches0.2-0.7 cm; hyalodermis absent, central strand weakly developed; pseudoparaphyllia foliose, lanceolate to ovate. Stem leaves straight to falcate-secund, ovate or broadly ovate-oblong, gradually narrowed to apex, 0.5-1.8 × 0.4-0.6 mm; base not decurrent, not auriculate; margins revolute from base to near apex, entire at apex; apex narrowly acuminate; costa distinct to rarely ecostate; alar cells , region not well defined, , 8-15 cells in marginal row, forming clearly defined angles, 2 or 3 larger, hyaline, rectangular cells in decurrent portion; basal laminal cells wider than medial cells, sometimes yellowish, walls porose, pitted; medial cells 25-40 × 4-5µm, . Branch leaves similar, slightly smaller. Sexual condition dioicous; . Seta yellowish to reddish when mature, 1-2 cm. Capsule inclined to horizontal, dull yellowish to brown, oblong-cylindric, 2-3 mm; annulus 2 (or 3)-seriate; operculum conic; endostome cilia 2 or 3.
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