Plants small, dull and brownish, scattered on a bright green protonema. Stems 0.2-0.6 cm. Leaves 2-4 mm, when dry loosely sheathing at the base, the blade narrow, curved and often hooked at the tips, erect-spreading and almost straight when moist; sheath oblong to oblong-ovate, in leaves near the base of the shoot abruptly contracted to the blade, in distal leaves more gradually tapering, not hyaline-margined, with a narrow strip of incrassate cells at the shoulders; blade narrowly lanceolate to linear, slenderly acuminate, ending in a short point; marginal lamina ± plane, variable in width, 1-stratose, irregularly notched-dentate or at times almost entire; costa smooth or weakly toothed abaxially near the tip; lamellae 11-16, entire in profile, 4-8 cells high, the marginal cells larger and rounded in section, single or in pairs, smooth; sheath cells short-rectangular; cells of lamina 10-12 µm, subquadrate to irregular. Seta 1-3.5 cm, reddish. Capsule 2.5-4 mm, erect or nearly so, sometimes indistinctly angled; exothecium scabrous, the cells short-rectangular, thick-walled; operculum obliquely rostrate; peristome 190-220 µm, divided to 0.8. Spores 9-12 µm.
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