Plants to 4 cm, . Stem leaves stiff, erect-appressed when dry, lanceolate, 2.7-3.6 mm; margins broadly recurved, plane at apex, entire; apex short-acuminate to acute; basal laminal cells elongate, walls thick, nodose; distal cells 9-15 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 2-4 per cell, simple or 2-fid, large. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 0.4 mm. Capsule immersed to emergent, ovate to cylindric-ovate, 1.6-1.8 mm, usually smooth or slightly 8-ribbed when dry; stomata superficial; peristome usually single; prostome small or absent; exostome teeth 16, recurved, coarsely papillose to papillose-striate; endostome rarely present, segments 8, rudimentary, of 1 row of cells, smooth. Calyptra oblong-conic, smooth, hairy, hairs papillose. Spores 14-17(-20)µm.
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