Plants in dense mats, light green to yellowish, glossy. Stems to 2 cm, 0.5-1 mm wide across leafy stem, prostrate to erect, ± complanate-foliate. Leaves erect-spreading, basally imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, symmetric, concave, 0.7-1.5 × 0.2-0.5 mm; margins plane or narrowly recurved nearly to apex, entire at apex or sometimes with few serrulations; apex acuminate, not abruptly contracted; costa ending just beyond leaf base, often ecostate; alar cells rectangular, 26-72 × 12-19µm, in 1-5 vertical rows, terminating in 1 cell at base, region triangular; medial laminal cells 52-150 × 4-10µm. Specialized asexual reproduction usually present as propagula, 57-108 × 7-14 µm, of 3-6 cells borne in leaf axils, or in clusters without stalks on abaxial leaf surface, or sometimes at leaf apices. Sexual condition dioicous, rarely fruiting. Seta light brown to orange-brown, 0.6-1 cm, straight. Capsule erect or rarely inclined, light brown to orange-brown when mature, straight or rarely somewhat arcuate, 0.5-1.2 × 0.2-0.6 mm, smooth, slightly wrinkled at neck when dry; operculum conic-apiculate to short-rostrate, 0.4-0.6 mm; endostome cilia absent, or 1 or 2, rudimentary. Spores 9-13 µm.
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