Plants yellowish or whitish. Stems terete-foliate to flattened, somewhat regularly pinnate, branches 10 mm, creeping or rarely ascending and curved, subjulaceous; pseudoparaphyllia triangular, long-acuminate. Stem and branch leaves slightly differentiated. Stem leaves nearly straight, ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to apex, concave, slightly plicate, 1.3-2 × 0.4-0.5 mm; margins plane, sometimes slightly involute distally; acumen long; costa double, short; alar cells 8-10 along margins, in 5-8 rows; medial laminal cells 50-80 × 4-5µm. Branch leaves narrowly ovate-lanceolate, shorter, 1.1-1.4 × 0.3-0.5 mm. Seta 1-1.8 cm. Capsule erect, oblong-cylindric, 1.6-2.2 × 0.4-0.6 mm; exothecial cells rounded-rectangular; operculum conic, obliquely short-pointed; peristome perfect, long; exostome teeth lance-subulate, 0.2 mm, base 70 µm wide, slightly papillose distally; endostome free, basal membrane well developed, segments linear-subulate, , papillose distally, not perforate, never split, cilia simple. Spores 11-14 µm.
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