Plants in dense or open turfs, green or yellow-green, sometimes reddish proximally. Stems 0.5-1(-2) cm, fertile stems evenly foliate, sometimes comose, innovations evenly foliate. Leaves green to yellow-green or rarely reddish, crowded, strongly contorted to shrunken when dry, ovate-lanceolate, flat, 1-3(-3.5) mm, often gradually enlarged toward stem apex; base green, somewhat to strongly and narrowly 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 16-25µm wide, 3-4:1, walls thin, . Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta red-brown, 2-4 cm, stout, straight to often flexuose or geniculate. Capsule brown, shape highly variable, elongate-pyriform to clavate, strongly curved and asymmetric, (2-)3-5 mm, mouth yellow-brown; ; operculum conic, apiculate; peristome well developed; exostome teeth yellow or orange basally, 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 present, appendiculate. Spores 14-20 µm, yellow to green.
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