Plants 1-3(-5) cm. Stems dark red or reddish brown when old; micronemata absent. Leaves green to light green, contorted when dry, broadly obovate or elliptic, (2-)3-5(-7) mm; margins pale green or reddish, 2-4-stratose; apex rounded or sometimes obtuse or truncate, short-mucronate or apiculate; costa percurrent or occasionally subpercurrent; medial laminal cells short-elongate or elongate, (50-)65-100(-120) µm, collenchymatous or not, walls pitted; marginal cells linear or short-linear, in 3 or 4 rows. Specialized asexual reproduction by green protonematous rhizoids. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 1.5-3.5 cm. Capsule oblong-cylindric, 2-3.5 mm; operculum conic-rostrate; exostome greenish yellow, lamellae 18+. Spores 29-41 µm.
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