Plants to 3 cm, . Stem leaves stiff, erect-appressed when dry, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-3 mm; margins revolute, entire; apex broadly acute to narrowly obtuse, often bluntly acuminate; basal laminal cells rectangular-elongate, walls thick, ± nodose; distal cells 9-16 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1-4 per cell, 2-fid, small. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 2-3 mm. Capsule emergent or exserted, oblong to cylindric, 1.2-2.5 mm, slightly 8-ribbed distally; ; stomata superficial; peristome double or single; prostome occasionally present, small; exostome teeth 16, sometimes connate in 8 pairs, reflexed-recurved, densely papillose, ; endostome segments often absent, occasionally rudimentary, or 8, well developed, , of 1 row of cells, smooth or finely papillose. Calyptra oblong to oblong-conic, smooth, sparsely hairy, hairs smooth. Spores 16-27 µm.
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