Plants medium-sized, caespitose, dark green to yellow-green; terricolous or saxicolous. Stems 4-26 mm tall; in section round, central strand present, frequently large, cortical cells ± incrassate, smaller toward margin, occasionally stereids; axillary hairs 8-12 cells long, hyaline throughout. Leaves incurved, appressed to crisped dry, widely spreading wet; narrowly spathulate to elliptical or oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long; apex broadly acute to obtuse, cuspidate; margins plane, entire. Costa short-excurrent, ventral superficial cells quadrate, papillose, dorsal superficial cells rectangular, smooth; in section semicircular to subround, guide cells 4, ventral stereid band strong, 2-3 cells thick, ventral surface cells similar to laminal cells, dorsal stereid band strong, 3-4 cells thick, dorsal surface cells substereids or differentiated only at insertion of lamina. Upper laminal cells quadrate to subquadrate, incrassate, papillae numerous, low, blunt, scattered over lumen; marginal cells generally papillose; basal cells rectangular, hyaline, smooth, thin-walled, junction with laminal cells ± straight across leaf. Dioicous. Perichaetia terminal, leaves undifferentiated. Seta 5-0 mm long, yellowish; capsule short-cylindrical, 1.5 mm long; peristome absent or rudimentary; operculum rostrate, 1 mm long; calyptra cucullate; spores round, 15-17 µm, papillose.
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Stem rounded-pentagonal in section. Leaves flattened, ovate to elliptical, distal margins plane or weakly erect, entire, not bordered; apex rounded or rounded-acute, plane to weakly concave, keeled or cucullate; basal cells evenly differentiated across leaf base or as a U, only weakly running up margins if at all, not distinctly enlarged submarginally; distal laminal cells pluripapillose with low papillae; mucro short-conic to stout and narrowly tapering, of 3-6(-10 or more) cells. Sexual condition dioicous. Peristome teeth absent, rudimentary or short-lanceolate.
Plants caespitose. Stems 4-26 mm long, central strand present. Leaves incurved, crisped when dry, widely spreading when wet, narrowly spathulate to elliptical or oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long; apex acute to obtuse, cuspidate; margins plane; costa short-excurrent, with stereid bands. Upper laminal cells subquadrate, incrassate, papillose, basal cells rectangular, hyaline, smooth. Capsule short-cylindrical, peristome absent or rudimentary.
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