Plants small, bulbiform in shape with distally densely crowded leaves, light green to glaucous, in dense clusters or tufts. Stems above ground erect, 2-5 mm. Leaves 1.5-4 mm; proximal leaves less crowded, ovate with acute tips; margins entire to weakly serrate; distal laminal cells elongate, oblong-hexagonal to short-rhomboidal; proximal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular. Sexual condition paroecious with antheridia in naked clusters in axils of distal leaves. Seta short, less than 0.25 mm. Capsule immersed to slightly emergent when mature and fully expanded, pale green, cleistocarpous, globose to ellipsoidal or ovate with a truncate base, 1-1.5 mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter; stomata at base of capsule with a central opening in an imperfectly divided single, 2-nucleate guard cell. Calyptra narrowly conic, covering tip of capsule. Spores of 2 sizes: large, faintly granulose, yellow-brown, 120-160 µm, and small, densely granular, shriveled, 32-73 µm.
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