Plants medium-sized, in loose tufts or scattered among other bryophytes, green to reddish brown with age. Stems to 3(-5) cm, comose from a wiry base, mostly unbranched. Leaves 2.5-6 mm, loosely imbricate, erect and somewhat incurved when dry, plane and erect-spreading when moist; sheath short-ovate, not hyaline-margined, abruptly contracted to the blade, the group of incrassate hinge-cells at the shoulders not much differentiated; blade rather broadly oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; marginal lamina erect, narrowly inflexed when dry, 1-stratose, 1-3 cells wide, toothed nearly to the shoulders with multicellular, uncinate teeth (rarely serrulate, but never entire), the teeth broadly triangular, (1-)3-7-celled, the terminal cell not much larger than the others; costa percurrent or slightly excurrent as a short, smooth to denticulate point, smooth or sparsely toothed near the tip; lamellae 20-30, entire or slightly crenulate in profile, 5-7 cells high, the marginal cells thick-walled and coarsely papillose, ± rectangular and flat-topped in section, broader than high, the lumen quadrate; median sheath cells short-rectangular, thin-walled; cells on abaxial surface of blade transversely elongate, 25-30 × 12-18 µm, with a median strip of cells shorter and ± isodiametric. Seta 1-3.5(-5) cm, brownish, straight to flexuose. Capsule 2-3 mm, erect to somewhat inclined, brownish; exothecium mammillose, the cells short-rectangular, incrassate, appearing distinctly pitted in surface view; peristome 350-450 µm, deeply divided from 0.8 to nearly to the base, the teeth slender, reddish brown with hyaline margins. Spores 18-24 µm.
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