Plants in open, occasionally compact tufts, olivaceous or brownish, sometimes with yellow or orange tones. Stems 1-3.5(-5) cm, central strand distinct. Leaves erect or slightly curved when dry, ovate-lanceolate, sharply keeled distally, 1.7-3.3 mm, 1-stratose with 2-stratose striae or patches or occasionally 2-stratose distally; margins recurved to well just before the apex, often less recurved to nearly plane on part of one side of leaf, usually denticulate near apex, usually 2-stratose or 3-stratose; apices acute; costa percurrent or excurrent as a denticulate, usually decurrent awn, abaxial surface often papillose; basal marginal cells quadrate or short-rectangular, transverse walls often somewhat thicker than longitudinal walls, often trigonous; distal laminal cells usually rounded or short-rectangular, 8-9 µm wide, weakly sinuose. Sexual condition autoicous. Capsule red-brown, sometimes orange-brown, elongate-cylindric to cylindric, 0.8-1.4 mm; exothecial cells mostly elongate, mixed with angular-isodiametric cells, walls unevenly thickened and somewhat curved, often trigonous; stomata absent or few; peristome patent to squarrose, sometimes twisted, 300-450 µm, red, densely to finely papillose, entire or strongly perforated. Spores 8-11 µm, granulose or verruculose.
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