Plants in dense or open turfs, green or yellow-green. Stems0.5-3 cm, fertile stems comose, innovations evenly foliate. Leaves green to yellow-green, crowded, strongly contorted to shrunken when dry, ovate-lanceolate, flat, 1-3.5(-4) mm, often gradually enlarged toward stem apex; base green, not decurrent; margins revolute proximally, plane distally, limbidium strong, in 2 or 3 rows; apex acuminate; costa percurrent to short-excurrent, awn stout; proximal laminal cells long-rectangular, 3-5:1; medial and distal cells 18-22 µm wide, 3-4:1, walls thin. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta yellow-brown or brown, 2-4 cm, stout, straight to somewhat flexuose. Capsule brown, shape highly variable, elongate-pyriform to clavate, somewhat to strongly curved, (3-)4-6(-7) mm, mouth yellow-brown; ; operculum conic, apiculate; peristome reduced; exostome teeth yellow throughout or rarely hyaline distally, lamellae straight, pores absent near base along mid line; endostome not adherent to exostome, basal membrane 1/2 exostome height, segments with ovate perforations, cilia absent or rudimentary. Spores 28-32(-35) µm, yellow to green.
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