Erect stems 2-4(-6) cm, not dendroid; sterile stems absent. Leaves green or yellow-green, crisped and contorted, distally often densely twisted around stem when dry, flat when moist, obovate or elliptic, 3-5(-7) mm; base decurrent or not; margins toothed to 2/3 leaf length or sometimes just past mid leaf or to base, teeth sharp, of 1-2(-3) cells; apex acute, acuminate, or rarely obtuse or rounded, cuspidate, cusp toothed; costa percurrent, excurrent, or rarely subpercurrent; medial laminal cells short-elongate or ± isodiametric, (17-)25-40(-45) µm, slightly smaller near margins, in longitudinal, rarely diagonal rows, strongly collenchymatous, walls not pitted; marginal cells linear, in (3-)4-5 rows. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta 1-4(-6), yellow, reddish at base, 3-4 cm. Capsule horizontal to pendent, oblong, 3-4.5 mm, neck distinct, brown, often wrinkled; operculum conic-apiculate. Spores 34-40 µm.
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