Plants medium to large, forming large, loose tufts, yellow-green to grey-green, frequently tinged with red, yellow at apex, brown to black below; saxicolous or terricolous. Stems creeping, to 100 mm long, branches numerous; in section round, central strand absent, inner cortical cells large, hyaline, in 3-5 rows; outer cortical cells smaller, red-yellow, thick-walled, in 2 or 3 rows, axillary hairs few, 2 or 3 cells long, basal cells brown; pseudoparaphyllia absent. Leaves evenly spaced, widespreading wet, appressed with reflexed tips dry; stem leaves ovate to oblong, 1.5-2.0 mm long; acute to acuminate; apex frequently hair-pointed, awn reddish, weakly narrowed to insertion; margins recurved and reddish below, plane to broadly inflexed above, serrulate above, faintly bordered; ecostate. Upper laminal cells fusiform, somewhat sigmoid, heterogeneous, 12-75 µm long, 6-12 µm wide, walls incrassate and pitted, densely granulate on both surfaces, border cells in 2-16 rows, narrower and smooth, thicker in section; basal cells somewhat longer but not strongly differentiated, 60-100 µm long, 8-12 µm wide, greenish yellow, reddish across insertion, walls incrassate and pitted, densely granulate; alar cells strongly differentiated and forming distinct groups, quadrate to short rectangular, reddish, smooth, thin-walled. Perigonial leaves ovate-acute, 1 mm long. Perichaetial leaves oblong-acuminate, imbricate, 2.5-3.0 mm long, margins weakly serrulate; leaf cells rectangular, incrassate and pitted. Seta 6 mm long, yellow-brown, smooth. Capsule exserted, erect, ellipsoid, 2 mm long, weakly ribbed, yellow-brown, gymnostomous; neck shorter than urn; exothecial cells rounded to quadrate, walls thin, cells at mouth quadrate to transversely short-rectangular, neck cells smaller, quadrate, thickened; stomata on neck, numerous, phaneropore. Operculum conic-rostrate, beak curved, 0.5 mm long. Calyptra cucullate, reddish, 1 mm long, smooth. Spores not seen.
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