Plants in small dense cushions or turfs, yellow-green to dark olivaceous, hoary. Stems 5-20 mm, sparsely branched. Leaves crowded, ovate to obovate, imbricate to appressed-julaceous distally, somewhat spreading to squarrose-recurved proximally, 0.6-1.2 mm excluding awn, apex acute to acuminate, lamina 1-stratose to rarely 2-stratose in bands, awn length highly variable, 0.3-1.4 mm, hyaline; costa in transverse-section distinctly keeled; proximal cells rectangular, 15-40 × 10-20 µm, often appearing lax; mid leaf cells isodiametric to short-oval, (5-)8-12(-20) µm; distal cells somewhat longer than mid leaf cells. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaf lamina to 1.5 mm, awn 1-1.7 mm. Seta 0.4-0.6 mm. Capsule yellow-brown turning red-brown with age, ovoid to subglobose, 0.8-1 mm; operculum short-rostrate, 0.5-0.6 mm.
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