Plants in dense or open turfs, green or yellow-green. Stems 1-2(-3) cm, comose, innovations comose or somewhat elongate and evenly foliate; not strongly radiculose. Leaves green, twisted to contorted when dry, ovate-lanceolate, flat to weakly concave, (0.5-)1-2(-3) mm, enlarged toward stem apex; base weakly decurrent; margins revolute to mid leaf or beyond, limbidium strong, in 2 or 3 rows; apex acuminate; costa short-to long-excurrent, awn (straight), ± smooth; proximal laminal cells 3-4:1, same width or sometimes wider than more distal cells; medial and distal cells rhomboidal, 16-20 µm wide, 2-3:1, walls usually thin to firm. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta 1-2(-3) cm. Capsule brown, elongate-pyriform, symmetric, 2-4 mm, mouth yellow; operculum long-conic, distinctly apiculate; peristome well developed; exostome teeth yellow basally, hyaline distally, lamellae usually straight mid tooth, 1-2(-3) small pores present along mid line at base of tooth; endostome not adherent to exostome, basal membrane high, 1/2 exostome height, segments with broadly ovate perforations, cilia short, rudimentary. Spores variable in size, (18-)22-30 µm, finely papillose, pale yellow-brown.
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