Plants moderately robust, dark-green to brown plants in loose tufts. Stems 1.5-3(-6) cm high, usually unbranched, sparsely radiculose at or near the base. Leaves 6-10 mm, erect and loosely appressed with recurved tips when dry, spreading and broadly recurved when moist; sheath ovoid, hyaline-margined, golden brown, contracted to the blade, the cells at the shoulders forming a differentiated hinge; blade long-lanceolate, coarsely toothed at least in distal 2/3, acuminate, ending in a short, reddish, toothed awn; costa shortly excurrent, sparsely toothed abaxially near the tip; marginal lamina 1-stratose, narrow, mostly erect; lamellae 6-7 cells high, entire in side view, with nearly straight sides when viewed from above, the terminal cells in section rounded or more often transversely elliptical, ± flat-topped, with a much smaller lumen than the others and the free wall conspicuously thickened, often brownish, smooth, sometimes finely striate-papillose; sheath cells 40-50 × 16-20 µm (3:1); cells of marginal lamina 12-15 µm, subquadrate; perichaetial leaves with long, sheathing bases and conspicuous golden yellow awns. Seta 2-9 cm, stout, yellowish, much longer than the leafy shoots. Capsule 3-5 mm, pale brown, suberect to strongly inclined, 4-angled; hypophysis cylindric but not sharply delimited; exothecial cells not bulging or mammillose, without a central thin spot; stomata numerous, on the distal part of the hypophysis; peristome 300 µm, divided to 0.6, the teeth ca. 50, pale brown. Spores 11-14 µm.
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