Plants small to medium-sized, caespitose, dark green to yellow-green, brownish below; saxicolous. Stems (5-)10-15(-20) mm tall, occasionally branching above. Leaves crowded, ± contorted to circinate-incurved dry, erect-spreading to widespreading wet; lanceolate to occasionally acuminate above oblong or elliptical base, (2.0-)3.5-4.5 mm long; bistratose above base, occasionally tristratose juxtacostally; apex acute to subcucullate; not narrowing to insertion; margins plane or occasionally reflexed in base. Costa percurrent to subpercurrent, ventral superficial cells mammillose, dorsal superficial cells smooth; in section bulging dorsally, guide cells 6-8, ventral stereid band 1(2) cell(s) thick, ventral surface cells similar to ventral laminal cells, mammillose, dorsal stereid band 2 or 3 cells thick, dorsal surface cells substereids with conspicuously thickened outer walls. Upper laminal cells quadrate to rounded-quadrate, 6-10 µm, thickened, mammillose on dorsal and ventral leaf surfaces; basal cells rectangular to long-rectangular, yellowish to hyaline, thin-walled. Seta 2-5 mm long, yellow-brown. Capsule short, elliptical to ovoid, (1.0-)1.5-2.0 mm long, yellowish brown. Peristome teeth fragile, narrowly triangular, cleft and perforated, ornately papillose, orange-yellow. Operculum rostrate, 1 mm long. Calyptra mitrate, 2.0-2.5 mm long. Spores rounded to angular, 12-18 µm, green to brown, verrucate.
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