Plants 0.8-4 cm. Stem leaves loosely erect-spreading when dry, lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm; margins revolute to just below apex, often wavy and slightly notched near apex; apex gradually acuminate to long acuminate-cuspidate; basal laminal cells elongate, walls thick, nodose; distal cells 7-13 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic, size moderate. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 1-1.5 mm. Capsule immersed to fully exserted, usually 1/2-1/4 emergent, oblong-ovate to cylindric, 1.5-2 mm, smooth to slightly 8-ribbed; stomata superficial; peristome double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 16, , recurved, , obscurely and densely papillose; endostome segments 16, separate to base, well developed, , of 2 rows of cells, , coarsely papillose. Calyptra conic-oblong, smooth, moderately hairy, hairs smooth. Spores 17-29 µm.
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