Plants small, golden green to pale green. Stems creeping, freely branched, central strand absent. Pseudopara-phyllia absent. Stem and branch leaves similar, falcate, lanceolate, plane, 1.0-1.6 mm long, 0.2-0.3 mm wide; margins entire; apex long-acuminate, serrate; costae absent; laminal cells linear, smooth, 47-71 µm long, 3-4 µm wide; alar cells enlarged, inflated, usually not colored, consisting of 1 row. Asexual propagule absent. Autoicous. Perichaetial leaves erect, linear-lanceolate, plane, 1.3-2.2 mm long, 0.30-0.45 mm wide, apex acuminate to aristate, serrulate; costae absent or short and double, laminal cells linear, smooth, porose, 67-77 µm long, 4-5 µm wide, quadrate near base; alar cells enlarged, inflated usually colored. Setae elongate, smooth, ca. 1 cm long; capsules inclined to pendent, ovoid-cylindric, ca. 1 mm long, constricted below mouth when dry; exothecial cells collenchymatous; annulus present, operculum obliquely long-rostrate; exostome with zig-zag line, cross-striate below, coarsely papillose above, trabeculate at back; endostome with high basal membrane, keeled, cilia absent. Spores spherical, finely papillose, 19-21 µm across. Calyptrae cucullate, naked, smooth.
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