Plants to 1.5 cm. Stem leaves stiff, erect-appressed when dry, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate-ligulate, 1.3-3 mm; margins recurved, becoming incurved or plane at apex, entire; apex narrowly obtuse, acute to notched and channeled; basal laminal cells rectangular, occasionally polygonal, walls thin to occasionally thick, rarely nodose; distal cells 10-16 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 2 or 3 per cell, simple, low. Specialized asexual reproduction sometimes present by gemmae on leaves. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. <Vaginula with hairs present>. Seta 0.5-1 mm. Capsule emergent, cylindric when dry, 1.5-2 mm, slightly 8-ribbed entire length, , constricted below mouth when dry; stomata immersed, <1/2 to completely covered by subsidiary cells, cells projecting, inner walls thickened>; peristome double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 8, reflexed, finely papillose; endostome segments 8, well developed, of 1 (or 2) rows of cells, smooth to faintly papillose. Calyptra oblong-conic, smooth, hairy distally, hairs smooth. Spores 14-18 µm.
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