Plants in dense or open turfs, yellow-green, yellow-brown, red-green, or brown. Stems0.5-2(-3) cm, evenly foliate to comose, innovations elongate and evenly foliate; weakly radiculose. Leaves green, ± imbricate to weakly contorted or shrunken when dry, ovate, strongly concave, 1-2 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 not reaching apex to percurrent, rarely short-excurrent, awn denticulate; proximal laminal cells 3-4:1, same width as more distal cells; medial and distal cells hexagonal, 12-18 µm wide, 2-3:1, walls somewhat to distinctly incrassate. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition synoicous or sometimes polyoicous, with female-only gametangia. Seta (1-)2-3 cm. Capsule yellow-brown, short-pyriform, asymmetric, curved, 2-3 mm, mouth yellow; operculum short-convex, apiculate; peristome reduced; exostome teeth yellow-brown basally, hyaline distally, lamellae straight mid tooth, pores absent along mid line; endostome not adherent to exostome, basal membrane low, 1/3 exostome height, segments with ovate perforations, cilia usually present, appendiculate, sometimes reduced. Spores 15-22(-25) µm, finely papillose, brown-yellow.
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