Plants 1-3(-5) cm. Stems dark red or reddish brown, or brown when old; micronemata present, often indistinct. Leaves green or occasionally pale reddish or reddish brown, variously contorted when dry, obovate or orbicular, 1.5-3(-4) mm; margins green or rarely reddish or pale brown, blackish on older leaves, 1-stratose; apex rounded or rarely retuse, rarely short-apiculate; costa ending well before apex to 7/8 leaf length or rarely longer, often 2-fid distally; medial laminal cells elongate, 35-65(-100) µm, collenchymatous, walls pitted; marginal cells linear, rhomboidal, or ± rectangular, in 1-2(-3) rows. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 1.5-2 cm. Capsule ovate to subglobose, 1-1.5 mm; operculum conic; exostome brown, lamellae less than 20. Spores 28-36 µm.
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