Leaves oblong-lanceolate to obovate or long-elliptic, apex rounded-acute, mucronate to short-awned, margins recurved at base or somewhat higher, not bordered or bordered at base with 3-5 rows of thicker-walled cells, 1-3:1; costa excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally very gradually narrowing, 3-5 cells across the weakly convex adaxial surface; distal laminal cells rounded-hexagonal, 14-20(-28) µm wide, 1:1, not papillose or very weakly so. Sexual condition autoicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 1-2 cm. Capsule stegocarpic, not systylius, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 3-6 mm; peristome 1700-2000 µm, teeth of 32 filaments twisted at least 1 full turn, basal membrane high, ca. 1000 µm; operculum ca. 1-2 mm. Spores 12-18 µm, spheric, finely papillose.
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