Erect stems 2-4 cm, not dendroid; sterile stems to 8 cm. Leaves green or yellow-green, crisped and contorted when dry, flat when moist, elliptic, broadly elliptic, or sometimes obovate or oblong, (3.5-)4-7(-10) mm; base long-decurrent; margins toothed to near base, teeth sharp or occasionally blunt, of 1-2(-3) cells; apex obtuse, rounded, acute, acuminate, or rarely retuse, mucronate or cuspidate, cusp sometimes toothed; costa percurrent or excurrent; medial laminal cells usually elongate, short-elongate, or occasionally ± isodiametric, (35-)50-65 (-85) µm, less than 1/2 size near margins, in longitudinal or diagonal rows, collenchymatous, walls pitted; marginal cells linear, in 2-4 rows. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta (1-)3(-7), yellow to reddish or orange with age, 2-5 cm. Capsule pendent, oblong, cylindric, or narrow-ovoid, 3-4.5 mm, neck not distinct; operculum conic-apiculate. Spores 20-36 µm.
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