Plants in dense or open turfs, green or yellow-green. Stems 1-2(-3) cm, comose, innovations comose or somewhat elongate and evenly foliate; often strongly radiculose. Leaves green, twisted to contorted when dry, ovate-lanceolate, flat to weakly concave, (1-)1.5-2(-3) mm, not much enlarged toward stem apex; base weakly decurrent; margins revolute to mid leaf or beyond, limbidium weak to strong, in 1-2(-3) rows; apex acuminate; costa long-excurrent, awn ± smooth; proximal laminal cells 3-4:1, same width or sometimes wider than more distal cells; medial and distal cells rhomboidal, 12-20 µm wide, 3-4:1, walls usually thin to firm, . Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta 1-2(-3) cm. Capsule brown, elongate-pyriform, asymmetric, somewhat curved, 2-4 mm, mouth , yellow; operculum conic, apiculate; peristome well developed; exostome teeth yellow basally, hyaline distally, lamellae usually straight mid tooth, pores absent along mid line; endostome not adherent to exostome, basal membrane high, 1/2 exostome height, segments with narrowly ovate perforations, cilia long, nodose. Spores (18-)20-26(-30)µm, finely papillose, pale yellow or green.
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