Leaves ovate to elliptic, occasionally lingulate, apex rounded and muticuous, margins weakly recurved in proximal 1/2 of leaf, weakly bordered in distal 2/3 of leaf with 2-6 rows of thicker-walled, smaller cells (sometimes weak or patchy); costa percurrent or ending 2-6 cells before the apex, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2(-3) cells across adaxial surface; distal laminal cells hexagonal, width 13-18(-25) µm, 1:1, weakly papillose. Sexual condition dioicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 0.5-1(-1.5) cm. Capsule stegocarpic, not systylius, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.5-2 mm; peristome of 32 twisted filaments, basal membrane low; operculum 1-1.5 mm. Spores 9-13 µm, spheric, essentially smooth.
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