Plants medium sized, golden green to yellow. Stems creeping, freely branched, central strand absent. Pseudoparaphyllia absent. Stem and branch leaves similar, incurved, lanceolate, falcate, 1.1-1.5 mm long,0.28-0.33 mm wide; margins entire to denticulate above; apex acuminate to aristate; costae absent; laminal cells linear, smooth to papillose, 60-70 µm long, 4.5-6.0 µm wide; alar cells enlarged, inflated, colored. Asexual propagule absent. Autoicous. Perichaetial leaves erect, oblong-lanceolate, plane, 1.1-1.4 mm long, 0.3-0.4 mm wide, apex acuminate to aristate, serrulate; costae absent, laminal cells linear, smooth to papillose, 60-70 µm long,7.0-8.5 µm wide; alar cells poorly differentiated. Setae elongate, smooth, 0.5-0.7 cm long; capsules inclined topendent, ovoid-cylindric, ca. 3 mm long, constricted below mouth when dry; exothecial cells collenchymatous; annulus present, operculum obliquely long-rostrate; exostome with zig-zag line, cross-striate below, coarsely papillose above, trabeculate at back; endostome with high basal membrane, keeled, cilia single, shorter than exostome teeth. Spores spherical, finely papillose, ca. 15 µm across. Calyptrae cucullate, naked, smooth.
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