Plants 0.5-1.5 cm. Stems erect. Stem leaves slightly twisted, erect-curved when dry, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm; base ovate or oblong; margins reflexed; apex acute; basal laminal cells elongate-linear; distal cells 8-11 µm, papillae conic, small, or sometimes surface almost smooth. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves little different from stem leaves. Seta 1.5-4 mm. Capsule obovate to oblong-obovoid, 1.1-2.8 mm, puckered and slightly 8-plicate at mouth, or smooth, mouth small, distinctly smaller than mid capsule; stomata in neck; peristome single; exostome teeth split to 16, erect, flexuose, densely and obscurely papillose; endostome segments absent. Calyptra oblong-conic, very hairy. Spores 19-26 µm.
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