Plants to 1 cm. <Primary stems creeping, vegetative and fertile stems erect; leaves differentiated on vegetative and fertile stems>. Stem leaves erect-appressed when dry, ovate-ligulate to ovate-oblong, grading to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate on fertile stems, 1.4-2.5 mm; margins recurved to near apex, entire; apex obtuse, acute to broadly acuminate near perichaetia; basal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, walls thin, not nodose; distal cells 10-12 µm, uniformly 2-stratose, papillae 1-3 per cell, simple, low. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 1 mm. Capsule immersed, ovate-oblong, 1.5 mm, 8-ribbed entire length, constricted below mouth when dry; stomata immersed; peristome double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 8 splitting to 16, erect to spreading when dry, densely and coarsely papillose; endostome segments 8, occasionally rudimentary, of 1 or 2 rows of cells, smooth. Calyptra short-conic, smooth, sparsely hairy, hairs papillose. Spores 8-12 µm.
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