Plants in dense cushions, turfs, or gregarious, pale yellow-silver. Stems 0.4-0.8 cm. Leaves erect to erect-spreading when moist, broadly ovate, somewhat con-cave, 0.2-1 mm; margins serrate near apex, limbidium present distally; apex acute, hyaline; costa long-excurrent, awn hyaline, straight to weakly recurved when dry; distal laminal cells hyaline, rhomboidal to almost vermicular, 30-40 µm, 4-6:1, walls thick, somewhat sinuate. [Capsule oblong, 2-3 mm; hypophysis slender, inconspicuous to somewhat well differentiated, sometimes expanded and rugose. Spores 20-23 µm].
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