Plants 0.3-0.8 cm. Stem leaves stiff, loosely erect-appressed when dry, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 1.8-2.2 mm; margins recurved to just below apex, entire; apex narrowly obtuse to bluntly acute, ; basal laminal cells rectangular, walls thin, nodose toward costa; distal cells 8-13 µm, 1-stratose, , smooth or papillae 1-3 per cell, conic, small. Specialized asexual reproduction by gemmae on abaxial surface of leaves. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. <Vaginula with hairs absent>. Seta 0.4-1 mm. Capsule emergent, oblong-cylindric and strangulate when dry, 0.4-1 mm, 8-ribbed when dry, , strongly constricted below mouth; stomata immersed, ; peristome double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 8, reflexed, finely and evenly papillose; endostome segments 8, well developed, of 1 or 2 rows of cells, smooth. Calyptra oblong, smooth, naked or sparsely hairy, hairs smooth. Spores 13-18 µm.
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