Leaves ovate to elliptic, occasionally lingulate, apex broadly acute, bluntly acute and muticuous or ending in a truncate or constricted mucro (in perichaetial leaves), margins revolute in proximal 1/2-2/3 of leaf, weakly bordered in distal 2/3 of leaf with 2-6 rows of thicker-walled, smaller cells; costa subpercurrent or percurrent, occasionally excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2(-3) cells across adaxial surface; distal laminal cells hexagonal to short-rectangular, width 13-18(-25) µm, 1(-2):1, smooth. Sexual condition paroicous or autoicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 0.6-1 cm. Capsule stegocarpic, systylius and pushing the operculum off, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 2.7-3.3 mm; peristome remaining in the operculum, delicate, teeth fragmentary, of somewhat twisted filaments, basal membrane low, hyaline; operculum ca. 1 mm. Spores 15-18 µm, spheric, finely papillose.
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