Plants 0.4-1 cm. Stem leaves stiff, erect when dry, ovate-to oblong-lanceolate, 2-2.7 mm; margins thick to near apex, entire; apex acute to ± narrowly obtuse; basal laminal cells quadrate to rectangular, walls thin, not nodose; distal cells 7-12 µm, 1-stratose, occasionally with 2-stratose streaks, papillae 2 or 3 per cell, conic, sometimes 2-fid, size moderate; . Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta to 0.8 mm. Capsule immersed to 1/2 emergent, oblong-ovate to oblong, 1.1-1.8 mm, distinctly 8-ribbed, constricted below mouth when dry; stomata immersed; peristome single, rarely double; prostome present; exostome teeth 16, incurved-erect to spreading-recurved, granulose or reticulate-papillose; endostome segments absent or rarely 8, not well developed, of 1 row of cells, , smooth. Calyptra oblong-conic, smooth, hairy, hairs papillose. Spores 12-16 µm.
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