Plants tufted, glaucous bluish green or sometimes yellowish green. Stems short or reaching 1.5 cm, simple or branched; rhizoids at base, papillose or smooth. Leaves somewhat flexuose or contorted when dry, narrowly lanceolate, gradually acuminate, margins plane or narrowly recurved and entire proximally, irregularly and often doubly toothed or serrate distally; costa 1, percurrent to short-excurrent, 1/5-1/3 width of leaf base; medial laminal cells smooth subquadrate to short-rectangular, smoth. Specialized asexual reproduction unknown. Sexual condition autoicous; perigonia terminal on well-developed branches; perichaetial leaves not differentiated. Seta yellow or yellow-brown, elongate, erect. Capsule erect and symmetric, exserted, yellow-brown, cylindric, ± longitudinally plicate when dry and empty; annulus of 2-3 rows of large, pale cells, persistent; operculum rostrate; peristome single, teeth16, split into 2 filaments, densely papillose. Calyptra cucullate. Spores globose, finely papillose.
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