Plants small to medium-sized, in thin open to thick mats, green or yellow-green. Stems with branches robust, julaceous, apices curving up; central strand present; paraphyllia many, filamentous to foliose, not branched. Leaves appressed to somewhat erect when dry, erect-spreading when moist, glossy or dull, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, asymmetric, ± falcate, 0.9-1.2 mm; margins strongly and broadly recurved to acumen; apex abruptly and slenderly long-acuminate, hair-point absent; costa subpercurrent to percurrent, green to yellow-green, sometimes sinuate; alar cells transversely elongate to quadrate, region large; medial laminal cells elongate-rhomboidal to fusiform or somewhat vermicular, to 25 µm, 3-4:1, opaque, strongly prorate to near base, walls firm to incrassate, not pitted; juxtacostal cells somewhat longer than more distal cells, walls not pitted. Capsule erect to suberect, symmetric, 1-1.5 mm; endostome basal membrane 1/3 exostome length, segments shorter than exostome, cilia absent or rudimentary. Spores 12-17 µm.
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