Plants 1-3(-4) cm. Stems dark red to reddish brown or rarely black when old; micronemata absent. Leaves reddish, reddish brown, or sometimes yellow-green or with golden hue, slightly to moderately contorted when dry, orbicular, broadly elliptic, or occasionally obovate, (1-)1.8-2.4(-3.8) mm; margins reddish, brownish, or rarely green, 1-stratose; apex rounded or occasionally retuse, not apiculate; costa subpercurrent or rarely weakly percurrent; medial laminal cells short-elongate or sometimes ± isodiametric, 45-65(-80) µm, collenchymatous, walls pitted; marginal cells rhomboidal or rectangular, in 1-2(-3) rows. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 1.5-2 cm. Capsule elliptic, 1.2-2 mm; operculum conic; exostome yellow, lamellae 18+. Spores 25-30 µm.
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