Plants to 0.5 cm. Stem leaves stiff, erect-appressed when dry, elongate-lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 2-3.8 mm; margins recurved-revolute to near apex, entire; apex acute, bluntly acute, or narrowly obtuse; basal laminal cells long-rectangular to rectangular, walls thin, sometimes slightly nodose; distal cells 9-14 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1-3 per cell, conic, small. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 1-3 mm. Capsule exserted, oblong-cylindric to cylindric, 1.8-2.4 mm, usually 16-ribbed, 8 long ribs to mid capsule or beyond, 8 alternating short ribs, constricted below mouth when dry; stomata immersed; peristome usually single; prostome usually present; exostome teeth 16, rarely connate in 8 pairs, erect or spreading, finely horizontally striate proximally, vertically striate distally; endostome segments absent or rarely 8, not well developed, of 1 row of cells, , smooth. Calyptra oblong-conic, smooth, hairs few to many, papillose. Spores 11-15 µm.
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