Plants to 13 cm. Stem leaves erect-spreading to loosely erect, ± contorted when dry, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 2.5-6.5 mm; margins plane, entire; apex narrowly acute to acuminate; basal laminal cells narrowly elongate, walls thick, ± nodose; distal cells 7-14 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1-3 per cell, conic, large. Specialized asexual reproduction by gemmae on leaves. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 0.8-2.7 mm. Capsule immersed, emergent, or rarely exserted, oblong-cylindric, 1.7-3 mm, strongly 8-ribbed to mid capsule or entire length; stomata superficial; peristome double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 16, reflexed-recurved, , densely papillose; endostome segments 16, well developed, , of 2 rows of cells, , coarsely papillose. Calyptra conic-oblong, smooth, very hairy, hairs papillose. Spores 18-35 µm.
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