Plants to 0.3 cm. Stems erect. Stem leaves flexuose-crisped and loosely appressed, not contorted or twisted when dry, lanceolate, 1-2.2 mm; base ovate; margins reflexed; apex narrowly obtuse; basal laminal cells linear, grading to quadrate at margin; distal cells 8-12 µm, papillae conic or 2-fid, large. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves not differentiated from stem leaves. Seta 1.5-3 mm. Capsule ovate-oblong when mature, oblong to oblong-cylindric when old, 1.2-1.7 mm, strongly 8-ribbed 3/4 length, mouth wide but constricted below mouth or evenly tapering to seta from mouth; stomata in neck; peristome double; exostome teeth reflexed, incurved, smooth; endostome segments 8, smooth. Calyptra conic, very hairy. Spores 16-20 µm.
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