Plants in dense tufts, often brown proximally, bright green to yellow-green distally. Stems 0.5-3(-8) cm; often matted with rhizoids proximally. Stem leaves slender-to oblong-lanceolate, or obovate and acuminate; margins toothed or entire; apex acute, acuminate, or subulate; costa usually ending in subula; proximal laminal cells elongate, rectangular; distal cells rectangular, hexagonal, or oblong-hexagonal. Sexual condition autoicous or rarely dioicous. Seta 0.2-5 cm, not twisted. Capsule cleistocarpous or not, yellowish or reddish to dark brown or black, cylindric to ovoid or spindle-shaped; hypophysis same color or darker than urn, short to elongate, narrower to barely wider than urn; annulus usually absent; operculum hemispheric to bluntly conic; peristome single; exostome teeth 16, at first ± coherent in 4s, later in 2s, usually reflexed when dry, inflexed when moist, of 2 layers of cells. Calyptra conic-mitrate or cucullate, small, not constricted beyond base. Spores 8-12 µm, smooth or slightly papillose.
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