Plants yellowish. Stems terete-foliate, irregularly pinnate, branches 5 mm, creeping or sometimes ascending and curved, subjulaceous; pseudoparaphyllia triangular to semicircular. Stem and branch leaves differentiated. Stem leaves straight or somewhat falcate, ovate-lanceolate, suddenly narrowed to apex, concave, not plicate, 0.8-1 × 0.2-0.4 mm; margins plane; acumen short; costa double, short; alar cells 6-12 along margins, in 6-9 rows; medial laminal cells 30-65 × 5-6 µm. Branch leaves oblong-lanceolate, larger, 1.1-1.2 × 0.3-0.4 mm. Seta 2-2.4 cm. Capsule erect to suberect, oblong-cylindric, 1.8-2 × 0.6-0.7 mm; exothecial cell shape variable; operculum rostrate, obliquely long-pointed; peristome reduced; exostome teeth lanceolate, 0.2 mm, base 50 µm wide, finely papillose distally; endostome adherent to exostome teeth, basal membrane well developed, segments 2-fid, split, internal surface roughly and finely papillose, segment and cilia connate. Spores 16-32 µm.
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