Plants small, green, dull. Stems0.3-2.5 cm. Leaves ± erect, lanceolate, 0.6-1.1 mm; margins serrulate to serrate in distal 1/3; costa subpercurrent; distal medial laminal cells rhombic to rhomboidal, 60-95 µm, walls thin. Specialized asexual reproduction generally present when sterile; axillary gemmae in dense clusters, spheroid, yellow, green, or orange, leaf primordia <1-4>, restricted to apex, peglike. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonial leaves ovate; perichaetial leaves weakly differentiated, narrowly lanceolate. Seta orange-brown. Capsule inclined 95-180°, brown to stramineous, pyriform, neck 1/3 urn length; exothecial cells short-rectangular, walls sinuate; stomata superficial; annulus present; operculum convex-conic; exostome teeth yellow-brown, narrowly triangular-acute; endostome hyaline, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length, segments distinctly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia short to rudimentary. Spores 16-21 µm, finely roughened.
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