Plants dense, green to brownish. Stems with branching angle wide, branches firmly attached; pseudoparaphyllia foliose; rhizoids below or at abaxial leaf insertion, red-brown, smooth. Leaves erect-spreading, often subsecund, 0.2-0.5 mm; base somewhat narrowed to insertion; margins entire or nearly so; alar cells subquadrate, region of 6-8+ cells; distal laminal cells oblong-rhomboid, (2-)3-5:1. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaf margins entire. Seta 0.7-1.2 cm. Capsule erect or nearly so, oblong-cylindric, symmetric, 1-1.5 mm, somewhat contracted at neck and sometimes below mouth when dry, neck short; stomata in neck; annulus 1-seriate; operculum conic, obliquely short-pointed to rostellate; exostome teeth yellow-brown; endostome cilia or 2, rudimentary or absent. Spores 9-13 µm.
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