Plants to 3.5 cm, . Stem leaves stiff, loosely erect-appressed to erect-curved when dry, broadly lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or ovate-ligulate, 2-4 mm; margins strongly revolute from near base to just before apex, papillose-crenulate; apex bluntly acute to obtuse; basal laminal cells long-rectangular to elongate, walls thick, ± nodose; distal cells 10-15 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1-3 per cell, 2-fid, large. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 1-1.5 mm. Capsule emergent, often shortly so, oblong to short-cylindric, 1.5-2 mm, nearly smooth to slightly 8-ribbed, sometimes deeply 8-ribbed and constricted with flaring mouth when old and dry; stomata superficial; peristome rudimentary, appearing absent; prostome absent; exostome teeth 16, erect, sometimes reflexed when old and dry, papillose; endostome segments occasionally rudimentary, usually absent. Calyptra ovoid-campanulate, smooth, hairy, hairs papillose. Spores 8-11 µm.
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