Plants in thin to dense mats, dark green to yellowish. Stems 6 cm, 2-4 mm wide, complanate-foliate; rarely radiculose ventrally. Leaves wide-spreading to squarrose, usually distant, ovate-or oblong-lanceolate, rarely narrowly ovate, symmetric or nearly so, flat or somewhat concave, 1-2 × 0.3-0.6 mm; margins very narrowly recurved almost to apex, sometimes plane, serrulate throughout; apex acuminate or abruptly narrowed to acute or rarely subobtuse, not twisted; costa double and short or ecostate; alar cells few, long-to short-rectangular, rarely quadrate, 37-63 × 5-9 µm, in 1-3 rows, 1-5 cells in marginal row; laminal cells smooth or prorulose at distal ends on abaxial surface; medial cells 66-120 × 3-7µm. Seta reddish, 0.7-1.2 cm. Capsule reddish, oblong-ovoid, arcuate, 1-1.5 mm; operculum 0.5-1 mm. Spores 11-13 µm.
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