Plants in dense mats, light green to yellowish, glossy. Stems to 2 cm, 1-3(-4) mm wide across leafy stem, prostrate, complanate-foliate or rarely somewhat julaceous. Leaves erect or spreading, sometimes secund with apices pointing toward substratum, imbricate or rarely distant, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, asymmetric, flat, often slightly undulate, 0.7-2.6 × 0.3-1.2 mm; margins plane or often narrowly recurved nearly to apex, entire or sometimes with few serrulations at apex; apex slender-acuminate, not abruptly contracted; costa ending just beyond leaf base or rarely with one branch to mid leaf, sometimes ecostate; alar cells rectangular, 40-100 × 9-29 µm, in 1-5 vertical rows, terminating in 1 cell at base, region triangular; medial laminal cells 96-168 × 4-10 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction usually present as propagula, 40-86 × 8-14 µm, of 3-6 cells borne in leaf axils. Sexual condition autoicous, usually fruiting. Seta orange-brown to red, 1-1.6 cm, straight or curved. Capsule erect to cernuous, light brown to orange-brown when mature, straight to arcuate, 0.5-2 × 0.4-0.7 mm, smooth when dry or rarely wrinkled at neck when arcuate; operculum conic to short-rostrate, 0.3-0.8 mm; endostome cilia 1-3, sometimes absent. Spores 9-14 µm.
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