Plants medium-sized, in thin, loose mats, yellow-green to green. Stems 2-4 cm, 2-3 mm wide. Leaves wide-spreading to squarrose, usually wrinkled and contorted when dry, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 1-1.5 × 0.4-0.7 mm; margins plane to erect throughout, serrulate proximally, serrate to serrulate distally; alar cells short-rectangular to quadrate, 19-33 × 9-19 µm, region small, with 1 or 2 cells on margins; medial laminal cells often flexuose, linear-fusiform, 71-141 × 5-7 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. [Seta brown to reddish, 2-3 cm. Capsule horizontal to pendulous, sometimes nearly erect, light brown to reddish, 1-1.5 mm; operculum obliquely short-rostrate. Spores 9-14 µm].
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