Plants (1-)3-12.5 cm, . Stem leaves stiff, erect-appressed when dry, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2-4.5 mm; margins recurved to narrowly revolute to near apex, entire; apex sharply to slenderly acute; basal laminal cells elongate to rectangular, walls thick, ± nodose; distal cells 6-13 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic and small, or 2-fid and low. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta to 1.8 mm. Capsule immersed, emergent, or slightly exserted, usually 1/3 emergent, globose ovate, ovate-oblong, or short-oblong, 1.3-1.8 mm, slightly or distinctly 8-ribbed 1/2-2/3 length; stomata superficial; peristome single, rarely double; prostome large, conspicuous, or rudimentary; exostome teeth 16, erect or sometimes spreading-recurved when old, smooth, scattered-papillose, or coarsely papillose-granulate; endostome segments absent, or rarely 8, rudimentary, of 1 row of cells, smooth or roughened. Calyptra oblong, smooth, hairy or rarely naked, hairs finely papillose. Spores 13-21 µm.
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