Plants in compact, often flat cushions or tufts, olivaceous, brown, or black. Stems 0.3-0.8 (-1.5) cm, central strand absent. Leaves erect, often curved towards stem when dry, ovate-ligulate to ovate-lanceolate, usually concave proximally, moderately keeled distally, 0.4-0.7(-0.8) mm, 1-stratose, sometimes with a few 2-stratose striae distally; margins plane or recurved to just before the apex, smooth, 1-stratose or 2-stratose, rarely 3-stratose; apices rounded or sub-acute; costa sub-percurrent or percurrent, rarely excurrent as a tiny, weakly papillose awn, smooth; basal marginal cells quadrate or short-rectangular; distal laminal cells ovate or short-rectangular, 7-9 µm wide, smooth, sinuose. Sexual condition autoicous. Capsule dark red-brown or light brown, short-cylindric or cupulate, rarely slightly wider at the mouth, 0.4-0.6(-0.8) mm, occasionally finely ribbed when dry; exothecial cells of various shapes, mainly elongate or isodiametric, walls thin or unevenly thickened, straight or curved, sometimes trigonous; stomata absent; peristome erect or patent, 100-200 µm, red-brown or red, papillose, weakly perforated. Spores 8-11 µm, smooth.
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