Plants 1-2 cm, in loose tufts, yellow-green. Stems unbranched. Leaves uniformly spaced along stem, slightly contorted when dry, obovate to oblong, 1-2.8 × 0.8-1.2 mm; margins plane or slightly revolute proximally, ± entire; apex bluntly acute, obtuse; costa subpercurrent, ending 6 or fewer cells before apex. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition cladautoicous or synoicous. Seta dark orange, 1 cm, twisted, stout. Capsule pyriform, conic, or globose-conic, urn 1 mm; hypophysis dark orange, as long as urn; columella included; operculum deciduous, flat to conic, apex often blunt, oblique; peristome inserted at mouth; exostome teeth 8, connate in pairs, erect to slightly reflexed when dry, yellow to tan, lanceolate. Spores 27-48 µm, coarsely papillose.
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