Plants (6.5-)7-9 mm, succulent, in dense cushions, brownish and translucent proximally, succulent, blackish green and opaque distally. Leaves ellipsoid-ligulate, leaf limb ligulate and tubulose-fistulose beyond a flat, flaring and sheathing base, apex cucullate-fistulose; lamina beyond the base spirally inrolled, 2-stratose except for a margin 2-or 1-stratose in several rows, adaxial cells and cells of inrolled margins thin-walled, hyaline, strongly chlorophyllose, muticous or minutely apiculate; basal cells heterogeneous, oblate, quadrate and short-rectangular, with straight, somewhat thinner walls than cells in the leaf limb; mid leaf and distal cells quadrate or rectangular, with straight, somewhat thick walls. Gemmae absent. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves slightly enlarged. [Seta short, straight. Capsule erect, shortly exserted, symmetric, subglobose; annulus differentiated, of small non-vesciculose, quadrate, thin-walled cells, persistent; operculum long-rostrate, falling detached from the columella. Calyptra campanulate-mitrate, not erose, deeply lobed, large, covering the entire capsule, deeply plicate.]
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