Plants small, in dense tufts, yellow-green to dark green; terricolous. Stems 4-8(-12) mm tall, branched below; in section with central strand, cortical cells larger toward margin, reddish. Leaves erect, contorted or spirally twisted dry, spreading wet; oblong-spathulate to ungulate, 2-3 mm long; apex obtuse, retuse or emarginate, often asymmetrical; margins revolute to apex, entire. Costa excurrent, 1-2 mm long, smooth, hyaline; ventral superficial cells quadrate to rectangular, thin-walled, papillose, dorsal superficial cells elongate-rectangular, incrassate, smooth; in section guide cells 2-4, ventral cells 4-8, in single or double row, surface cells papillose, dorsal stereid band 6-8 cells thick, dorsal surface cells undifferentiated, smooth. Upper laminal cells quadrate to hexagonal, densely papillose with 6-8 C-shaped papillae over lumen; basal cells rectangular, hyaline, smooth. Autoicous. Perichaetial leaves undifferentiated. Seta 10-20 mm long, yellowish, becoming reddish to red-brown with age; capsule cylindrical, 2.5-3.0 mm long, red-brown, peristome 0.6 mm high, teeth linear, above short basal membrane, papillose, spirally twisted 1-2 times; operculum conical, 1 mm long; spores round, 9-12 µm, weakly papillose.
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Leaves ovate or elliptic to obovate, apex broadly acute to rounded or emarginate, short-to long-awned, margins narrowly recurved or revolute to near apex, commonly bordered distally with 2-4 rows of thicker-walled, papillose to smooth cells; costa long-excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 3-4(-6) cells across the convex adaxial surface; distal laminal cells hexagonal, 10-15 µm wide, 1:1, strongly papillose with 2(-4)-fid papillae. Sexual condition autoicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 0.6-1.5 cm. Capsule stegocarpic, not systylius, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.5-2.7 mm; peristome 300 µm, teeth of 32 filaments twisted 1/2-2 times, basal membrane low, to 50 µm; operculum 0.6-1 mm. Spores 8-12 µm, spheric, finely papillose or essentially smooth.
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