Plants in small dense cushions or turfs, yellow-green to dark olivaceous, hoary. Stems 5-15 mm, sparsely branched, julaceous. Leaves crowded, broadly oval to obovate, appressed-julaceous throughout stem, 0.4-0.9 mm excluding awn, apex rounded-obtuse, lamina 1-stratose to rarely 2-stratose in bands, awn length highly variable, 0.2-1.3 mm, hyaline; costa in transverse-section flat, not keeled; proximal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, 12-25 × 10-15 µm, often appearing lax; mid leaf cells oval to irregularly rhomboidal, mostly 1.5-2:1 or more, 7-20 µm; distal cells longer, irregularly elongate-rhomboidal, somewhat hyaline. Sexual condition autoicous or sometimes cryptoicous; perichaetial leaf lamina to 1.3 mm, awn 1.2-2 mm. Seta 0.2-0.4 mm. Capsule yellow-brown turning red-brown with age, ovoid, 0.7-1 mm; operculum short-rostrate, 0.4-0.5 mm.
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