Plants gregarious, tufted, to deeply caespitose, dark green to brownish when dry, to 3 cm but mostly much shorter. Leaves dimorphic, the vegetative 3-4 mm, loosely contorted when dry; distal lamina not reflexed, plane when moist, broadly linear, apex obtuse; margins bordered nearly to apex with hyaline cells, coarsely toothed-ciliate at shoulders and irregularly so to apex; medial cells distinct, 5 × 5-7 µm, bulging papillose adaxially, 1-papillose abaxially; cancellinae rounded or ending in acute angles distally; gemmiferous leaves terminal and in zones along stem, mostly rigidly erect wet and dry, consisting mostly of costa with narrow wings of lamina. Gemmae clavate-fusiform, smooth, abundant, forming pale spheres all around on excurrent tip of costa. Seta single, 15 mm. Capsule exserted, 2-5 mm; peristome teeth 120 µm, blunt, segmented.
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