Plants to 1.2 cm. Stem leaves erect-appressed when dry, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 2.2-3.2 mm; margins narrowly revolute to below apex, entire; apex acute and often cuspidate-apiculate; basal laminal cells elongate, walls thick, nodose; distal cells 9-15 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic, small. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 2 mm. Capsule exserted, ovate-oblong when dry, ovate when moist, 1-1.8 mm, smooth to moderately 8-ribbed; stomata superficial; peristome single, rarely double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 8, splitting to 16, erect to recurved when old, finely papillose to almost smooth basally, coarsely papillose distally, ; endostome segments 8, well developed, , of 1 row of cells, papillose-reticulate. Calyptra short-conic, smooth, hairs few, smooth. Spores 20-27 µm.
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