Plants 1-4(-8) cm, light green or yellow-green. Leaves oblong-ovate, concave, 1-2 × 3-5 mm; margins entire; apex abruptly subulate; costa vanishing in subula; distal laminal cells rectangular to oblong-hexagonal, 20 × 35 µm. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta stramineous, usually dark red with age, 1-5 cm. Capsule not cleistocarpous, red, dark or black with age, long-ovate; hypophysis somewhat wider than urn distally; stomata over whole of hypophysis; operculum bluntly conic. Calyptra conic-mitrate. Spores 9-12 µm, smooth or slightly papillose.
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