Plants small to medium-sized, loosely caespitose, green to yellow-green; terricolous. Stems 10-30 mm high, reddish, mostly simple, sparsely tomentose below. Leaves larger above, forming comose tuft, erect to erect-spreading wet or dry, below ovate-lanceolate 1.3-2.5 mm long, above linear-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long; apex acuminate; margins plane to narrowly recurved, entire to denticulate at apex. Costa percurrent to subpercurrent; in section bulging dorsally, guide cells 2, incrassate, occasionally with 1-2 ventral stereids, ventral surface cells similar to guide cells, dorsal stereid band weak, only a few cells and hydroids below guide cells, dorsal surface cells similar to ventral cells, incrassate. Upper laminal cells mostly 5-8: 1, linear to elongate-hexagonal, 50-75(-100) x 10-12 µm, frequently incrassate; basal cells rectangular. Paroicous. Antheridia in axils of comal leaves; perichaetia terminal, leaves similar to comal leaves. Seta flexuose, 10-30 mm long, brownish; capsule subhorizontal to pendent, pyriform, 2 mm long, neck short; exothecial cells irregularly rectangular, thin-walled; 1-2 rows at mouth darker, transversely rectangular; stomata present on neck, phaneropore; annulus differentiated; peristome double, yellowish, exostome teeth narrowly triangular, finely papillose, endostome with high basal membrane, segments broad, as high as teeth, cilia well developed, 2-3, elongate; operculum convex-apiculate; spores rounded, 18-25 µm, weakly papillose, brownish.
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Plants small to large, green or rarely reddish, dull. Stems 0.5-3.5(-10) cm. Leaves erect to ± spreading, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm; ; margins subentire or more often serrulate to serrate in distal 1/3; costa subpercurrent, percurrent, or rarely short-excurrent; distal medial laminal cells hexagonal to rhomboidal, , 50-90 µm, walls moderately thick. Specialized asexual reproduction typically absent. Sexual condition paroicous, rarely dioicous; perigonial leaves ovate-lanceolate; perichaetial leaves somewhat differentiated, ± long-lanceolate. Seta orange to orange-brown. Capsule inclined 80-100°, orange to orange-brown, slender-pyriform, neck 1/2 urn length; exothecial cells elongate-rectangular, walls straight; stomata superficial; annulus present; operculum conic; exostome teeth yellow to orange-brown, acute-triangular; endostome hyaline or rarely orange-brown, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length, segments , broadly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia short to long. Spores 16-22 µm, finely to distinctly roughened.
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