Plants small to medium-sized, caespitose, dark green to blackish green; saxicolous. Stems 8-12 mm tall, irregularly and infrequently branched. Leaves crowded, incurved and ± contorted above dry, erect-spreading wet; abruptly ligulate above obovate base, 3-4 mm long; acute; bistratose; base appressed, ± sheathing; margins frequently multistratose. Costa percurrent to subpercurrent, smooth dorsally and ventrally; in section elliptical, guide cells 6, occasionally with auxiliary cells, ventral stereid band ± irregular, 1(2) cell(s) thick, cells frequently not thickened, ventral surface cells smaller than laminal cells, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band 2 cells thick, dorsal surface cells not clearly defined, small, outer walls more strongly thickened. Upper laminal cells rounded-quadrate, occasionally short-rectangular or transversely rectangular, 7-12 µm, larger juxta costally; basal cells rectangular, thin-walled, yellowish, becoming shorter above. Seta 2-3(-5) mm long, yellow-brown. Capsule narrowly elliptical, 1.0-1.8 mm long, yellow-to red-brown, mouth red. Peristome teeth fragile, perforated. Operculum rostrate, 1 mm long. Calyptra mitrate, 2.0-2.4 mm long. Spores rounded, variable in size, 38-40 or 50-52 µm, green, granulate.
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