Plants in open, occasionally compact, often flattish tufts or cushions, brownish-olivaceous, brown, occasionally olivaceous. Stems 0.5-2 cm, central strand distinct. Leaves erect, occasionally curved, imbricate when dry, ovate-lanceolate, rarely ovate-triangular, keeled, 1-1.6(-2) mm, 1-stratose, sometimes 2-stratose in striae distally; margins usually recurved to near apex, sometimes unequally, rarely plane, smooth, 2-stratose, rarely 3-stratose; apices acute or sub-obtuse; costa percurrent or excurrent as a short, usually denticulate awn, smooth; basal marginal cells oblate, occasionally quadrate, trigonous; distal cells short-rectangular, rounded (ovate), or quadrate, 7-9(-11) µm wide, smooth, straight or slightly sinuose. Sexual condition autoicous. Capsule dark red-brown, rarely lighter or yellowish, short-cylindric, 0.7-1.3 mm, usually finely striate when empty; exothecial cells isodiametric or short-elongate, often irregularly angular, thin-walled, weakly trigonous; stomata present; peristome patent to squarrose, 250-380 µm, red or reddish brown, densely papillose, entire or weakly perforated. Spores 8-11(-13) µm, smooth.
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