Leaves obovate to occasionally ovate, apex acute or broadly acute, awned, margins recurved or plane proximally, not bordered; costa excurrent into the awn, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2-3 cells across the convex adaxial surface; distal laminal cells hexagonal to rhomboidal, width 15-22 µm wide, 1:1 near apex but elongate at mid leaf and basally, smooth. Sexual condition autoicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 0.8-1.1 cm. Capsule systylius, short-cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.5-2 mm; peristome 200-250 µm, teeth 16, straight, divided to near base but variously fused or perforate, basal membrane low; operculum 0.5-0.7 mm. Spores 22-30(-35) µm, spheric, warty papillose.
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