Leaves circinate-crisped dry, erect-spreading wet; lanceolate from a broad obovate base, 3-4 mm long; apex weakly cucullate; sheathing at base; lamina and margins bistratose above base. Costa subpercurrent to percurrent, ventral superficial cells mammillose, dorsal superficial cells smooth; in section elliptical, guide cells 6, incrassate, ventral stereid band 1 or 2 cells thick, cells sometimes substereid, ventral surface cells mammillose, dorsal stereid band 2-4 cells thick, dorsal surface cells incrassate. Upper laminal cells subquadrate, 5-10 µm, thickened, ventral cells mammillose, dorsal cells almost always shorter than ventral cells, smooth or infrequently papillose or weakly mammillose near margin; basal cells rectangular below, becoming quadrate at shoulders, thin-walled. Seta 2.0-3.5 mm long, reddish yellow. Capsule ovoid, 1.0(-1.5) mm long. Peristome teeth lanceolate, cleft above, papillose, reddish. Operculum rostrate, 0.7 mm long. Calyptra mitrate, 1.8 mm long. Spores rounded to ellipsoid, 20-30 µm, yellow-brown, granulate.
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