Plants in erect, loose to dense tufts, green, yellowish or brownish, shiny or dull. Stems 1-2(-6) cm, erect-spreading, simple branches, sparsely radiculose near apex. Leaves lanceolate, gradually subulate, erect-spreading, sometimes falcate-secund; margins erect, entire, to serrulate near the tips; costa mostly excurrent, narrow, stereids poorly differentiated from median guide cells; distal laminal cells linear to subquadrate, smooth or slightly mammillose; basal laminal cells elongate, smooth, sometimes porose, alar cells usually brown and well differentiated. Sexual condition cladautoicous or gonioautoicous. Pericheatial leaves with a sheathing base. Seta solitary, 7-16 mm, erect, yellow turning red with age. Capsule suberect, curved, cylindric, smooth to furrowed when dry, indistinctly strumose; operculum obliquely rostrate; peristome single, of 16, teeth, divided halfway into two segments, papillose to vertically striolate or pitted striolate, red-brown. Calyptrae cucullate, occasionally rough at apex. Spores spheric, 14-24 µm, finely roughened, yellow to greenish yellow.
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