Plants to 3 cm, . Stem leaves erect-appressed when dry, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm; margins recurved-revolute to near apex, entire or sometimes irregularly serrulate near apex; apex obtuse, ; basal laminal cells short-rectangular, walls thin, somewhat nodose; distal cells to 20 µm, 1-stratose, smooth or papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic, low. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta to 1.5 mm. Capsule immersed, oblong to oblong-ovate, 1.5-2 mm, strongly 8-ribbed entire length; stomata immersed; peristome double; prostome sometimes present, low; exostome teeth 8 splitting to 16, erect, loosely reflexed when old, densely papillose-striate; endostome segments (8-)16, well developed, of 1 or 2 rows of cells, finely papillose. Calyptra conic-oblong, papillose, naked. Spores to 15 µm.
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