Plants in dense or open turfs or scattered individuals, green, red-green, or yellow-green. Stems0.5-2(-3) cm, tufted, comose, innovations elongate and evenly foliate; often strongly radiculose. Leaves yellow-green to red-green, weakly to strongly contorted or shrunken when dry, ovate-lanceolate, weakly concave, (0.6-)1-2(-3) mm, enlarged toward stem apex; base not decurrent; margins revolute to mid leaf, limbidium strong, in 2 or 3 rows; apex acuminate; costa long-excurrent, awn smooth to denticulate; proximal laminal cells 3-4:1, same width or narrower than more distal cells; medial and distal cells rhomboidal, 12-18 µm wide, 3-4:1, walls thin. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta 1-3 cm. Capsule brown, short to long pyriform, symmetric, 2-4 mm, mouth , orange or yellow; operculum short-convex, apiculate; peristome somewhat reduced; exostome teeth yellow basally, hyaline distally, lamellae straight to curved mid tooth, pores absent along mid line; endostome sometimes adherent to exostome, basal membrane high, 1/2 exostome height, segments with ovate perforations, cilia rudimentary or sometimes 1 or 2, long, appendiculate to nodose. Spores (18-)20-24 µm, finely papillose, pale yellow or green.
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