Plants to 0.5 cm. Stem leaves erect and slightly flexuose when dry, broadly ligulate to ovate-ligulate, 2-2.5 mm; margins recurved to near apex, entire; apex narrowly obtuse; basal laminal cells short-rectangular, walls thin, not nodose; distal cells 10-16 µm, 1-stratose, smooth or papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic, low. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 0.5 mm. Capsule immersed to short-emergent, short-cylindric to elliptic when dry, 1.4-1.6 mm, smooth, constricted at mouth by 8 short ribs when dry; stomata immersed; peristome single; prostome absent; exostome absent; endostome segments 16, occasionally rudimentary, of 3 or 4 rows of cells, finely papillose. Calyptra conic, smooth, hairy, hairs smooth. Spores 17-21 µm.
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