Plants in open to compact, usually fragile (individual stems easily separated) tufts or mats, olivaceous, brownish green, or nearly black. Stems 1-2.5(-4) cm, central strand distinct. Leaves erect, rarely curved, usually imbricate when dry, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-triangular, keeled distally, concave proximally, (0.8)-1.6-2.4(-3) mm, 2-stratose distally; margins plane or erect, sometimes incurved, smooth, 1-stratose or 2-stratose; apices acute or somewhat obtuse; costa usually excurrent as a spinulose-denticulate or nearly smooth, usually straight, often very long decurrent awn, smooth; basal marginal cells short-rectangular or quadrate, sometimes with transverse walls thicker than longitudinal walls, trigonous; distal cells quadrate, ovate, or short-rectangular, 5-6(-8) µm wide, smooth, straight or weakly sinuose. Sexual condition dioicous. Capsule dark reddish brown, short-cylindric or cupulate, 0.8-1.1 mm; exothecial cells isodiametric or oblate, usually thin-walled; stomata present; peristome patent, 350-550 µm, red, finely papillose, strongly perforated. Spores 10-13 µm, finely papillose.
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