Plants to 1 cm, . Stem leaves stiff, erect-appressed when dry, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-3.5 mm; margins plane or weakly recurved, entire; apex blunt to obtuse; basal laminal cells quadrate to rectangular, walls thin, not nodose; distal cells 10-15 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic, small. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 0.5-0.8 mm. Capsule immersed, oblong, 1.2-1.9 mm, distinctly 8-ribbed, constricted below mouth when dry; stomata immersed; peristome single or rarely with fugacious endostome; prostome absent; exostome teeth 16, incurved-erect to spreading-recurved when dry, reticulate-papillose; endostome segments absent or 8, not well developed, of 1 row of cells, , smooth. Calyptra oblong-conic, smooth, hairy, hairs papillose. Spores 12-19 µm.
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