Plants in dense or open turfs, green, red-green, or yellow-green. Stems 2-4(-6) cm, tufted, comose, innovations elongate and evenly foliate; often strongly radiculose. Leaves yellow-green to green, proximal leaves distinctly black-gray with age, , strongly twisted to contorted when dry, ovate, strongly concave, (1-)2-3(-4) mm, not much enlarged toward stem apex; base , not or weakly decurrent; margins revolute to mid leaf or beyond, limbidium strong, in 2 or 3 rows; apex broadly acute to obtuse; costa not reaching apex to percurrent, rarely short-excurrent, awn smooth; proximal laminal cells 3-4:1, same width or wider than more distal cells; medial and distal cells rhomboidal, 14-20 µm wide, 2-3:1, walls usually firm to incrassate. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 1-3(-4) cm. Capsule brown, elongate-ovate, symmetric, 3-5 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 segments with ovate perforations, cilia long, appendiculate. Spores (10-)12-16 µm, finely papillose, pale yellow or green.
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