Plants yellowish or whitish. Stems terete-foliate, regularly pinnate, branches 5 mm, creeping or rarely ascending and curved, ± complanate-foliate, partly subjulaceous; pseudoparaphyllia triangular, long-acuminate. Stem and branch leaves well differentiated. Stem leaves substraight to falcate, broadly ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to apex, concave, not plicate, 1.4-1.6 × 0.4-0.7 mm; margins plane, sometimes slightly involute distally; acumen long; costa double, short; alar cells 10-15 along margins, in 5-10 rows; medial laminal cells 40-60 × 4-5 µm. Branch leaves narrowly ovate-to oblong-lanceolate, smaller, 1.2-1.4 × 0.3-0.5 mm. Seta 0.7-1.1 cm. Capsule erect, oblong-cylindric, 1.1-1.9 × 0.4-0.6 mm; exothecial cells rounded-rectangular; operculum conic, obliquely short-pointed; peristome perfect, long; exostome teeth lance-subulate, 0.3 mm, base 80 µm wide, roughly papillose distally; endostome free, basal membrane well developed, segments linear-subulate, , papillose distally, not perforate, never split, cilia simple. Spores 15-18 µm.
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