Plants large, in thick, stiff mats, green, yellow-green, becoming orange-green, orange-brown, or brown with age. Stems with branches slender to robust, julaceous, apices curving up; central strand absent; paraphyllia absent. Leaves appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, dull, ovate-lanceolate, symmetric, strongly falcate-secund, 1.5-2.5 mm; margins recurved proximally; apex gradually acuminate, hair-point present; costa ending in acumen, not percurrent, green to yellow-green, not usually sinuate; alar cells quadrate to short-rectangular, region medium-sized; medial laminal cells elongate-rhomboidal, to 30 µm, 2-3:1, translucent, prorate, walls incrassate, somewhat pitted; juxtacostal cells longer, narrower than medial, walls pitted. Capsule erect to suberect, symmetric, 0.8-1.7 mm; operculum conic-apiculate; endostome basal membrane 1/3-1/2 exostome length, segments often longer than exostome teeth, cilia slender, 1 or 2, or often rudimentary to absent. Spores (14-)20-28 µm.
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