Plants medium-sized, forming loose mats, dark green to yellow green, occasionally tinged with dark red; terricolous, saxicolous or corticolous. Stems creeping, 10-30 mm long, branching sparse, irregular; in section round, central strand absent, inner cortical cells thin-walled, hyaline, in 3 or 4 rows, outer corticalcells smaller, weakly thick-walled, yellow-brown, in 2 or 3 rows, epidermis fragile, ofenlarged thin-walled cells. Leaves crowded,widespreading wet, spreading and crisped dry, ± falcate and somewhat asymmetrical; oblong to elliptical, 1.5-2.5 mm long; apex shortly acuminate; rounded to base; margins plane, entire below, dentate by enlarged, frequently double-pointed marginal cells; not bordered. Costa double, extending to midleaf, smooth; in section a small group of smaller, weakly thickened cells, bulging dorsally. Upper laminal cells rhomboidal to subfusiform, homogeneous, (37-)50-75 µm long, 12-18 µm wide, walls thickened, weakly pitted, smooth; basal cells not strongly differentiated, oblong to rhomboidal, 50-75 µm long, 12-18 µm wide, walls thickened, weakly pitted, smooth; alar cells not differentiated. Autoicous. Perigonia on stem, gemmate; perigonial leaves ovate-cuspidate, to 1 mm long. Perichaetia along stem, not strongly differentiated; perichaetial leaves lanceolate to ovate-acuminate, to 2 mm long, leaf cells linear, somewhat sigmoid. Seta 10-15 mm long, dark red-brown, smooth. Capsule exserted, inclined to drooping, short-cylindrical, 1.0-1.5 mm long, smooth, dark red-brown; urn cylindrical; neck shorter than urn; exothecial cells shortly rectangular, walls weakly collenchymatous, cells at mouth quadrate to transversely rectangular, neck cells quadrate; stomata on neck, phaneropore. Peristome double, yellow-brown; exostome teeth lanceolate, erect with inflexed tips dry, erect appressed wet, striate below with deep furrow, papillose above, 500 µm high; endostome segments lanceolate and keeled above short basal membrane, as long as teeth, granulate, cilia absent. Operculum rostrate, 0.5 mm long. Calyptra mitrate, with a few hairs, especially when young, to 2 mm long. Spores rounded, 12-14 µm, weakly granulate, greenish.
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