Plants to 0.5 cm. Stem leaves stiff, loosely erect-appressed when dry, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.8-2.8 mm; margins revolute nearly to apex, entire; apex sharply to slenderly acute, usually apiculate, rarely obtuse, ; basal laminal cells rectangular, grading to quadrate at margin, walls thin, not nodose; distal cells 14-20 µm, 1-stratose, , smooth or papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic, small. Specialized asexual reproduction occasional, by gemmae on leaves. Sexual condition autoicous. Vaginula with hairs absent>. Seta to 0.5 mm. Capsule immersed to 3/4 emergent, oblong to oblong-cylindric, 1.2-1.5 mm, strongly 8-ribbed, sometimes constricted below mouth when dry; stomata immersed, (mid capsule, not or to 1/2 covered by subsidiary cells, cells projecting or not, inner walls thickened or not); peristome double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 8, rarely splitting to 16, reflexed, finely and evenly papillose; endostome segments 8, not well developed, of 1 or 2 rows of cells, smooth. Calyptra oblong, smooth, sparsely hairy or rarely naked, hairs smooth. Spores 14-21 µm.
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