Plants small, gregarious, yellow-green; terricolous. Stems to 1 mm tall, simple; in section round, central strand present, cortical cells incrassate. Leaves larger above, in-curved-contorted dry, spreading wet; lanceolate to ligulate, 2-3 mm long; apex acute, mucronate; base scarcely differentiated; margins plane to erect below, incurved above, entire. Costa short-excurrent, ventral superficial cells quadrate, papillose, dorsal superficial cells rectangular, smooth; in section semicircular, guide cells 4, ventral stereid band 2 cells thick, ventral surface cells similar to laminal cells, papillose, dorsal stereid band 4-5 cells thick, dorsal surface cells substereids. Upper laminal cells quadrate to subquadrate, incrassate, with 4-6 low, blunt papillae over lumen; basal cells rectangular to long-hexagonal, lax, smooth. Dioicous. Perigonia not seen; perichaetia terminal, leaves ligulate, 3 mm long. Seta erect, 0.3 mm long, yellowish; capsule immersed, cyathiform, to 1 mm long, yellowish, mouth red; stomata not seen; vaginula oval-cylindrical, to 0.8 mm long; peristome absent; operculum plano-convex, abruptly rostrate, 0.6 mm in diameter, 0.5 mm high, cells not twisted; spores round, (24-)27-30 µm, strongly papillose.
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