Plants in dense turfs, green or yellow-green. Stems 0.5-2(-3) cm, evenly foliate to comose, innovations elongate and evenly foliate; weakly radiculose. Leaves green, somewhat imbricate to weakly contorted or shrunken when dry, ovate, strongly concave, 1-2(-3) mm, somewhat enlarged toward stem apex; base not decurrent; margins revolute to mid leaf, limbidium strong, in (2-)3-4(-5) rows; apex acute to obtuse; costa percurrent to short-excurrent, awn , denticulate; proximal laminal cells 3-4:1, same width as more distal cells; medial and distal cells hexagonal, 14-18 µm wide, (2-)3-4:1, walls thin. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta (2-)3-4 cm. Capsule yellow-brown, obovate to short-pyriform, symmetric, 2-3 mm, mouth red; operculum short-convex, apiculate; peristome reduced; exostome teeth yellow to orange proximally, hyaline distally, lamellae straight mid tooth, pores absent along mid line; endostome not adherent to exostome, basal membrane high, less than 1/2 exostome height, segments with ovate perforations, cilia absent or rudimentary. Spores (18-) 20-30 µm, finely papillose, pale yellow or green.
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