Plants 0.5-1.2 cm. Stems erect. Stem leaves flexuose to ± contorted-flexuose, loosely erect when dry, lanceolate, 1.7-3.7 mm; base ovate; margins plane or slightly reflexed; apex obtuse; basal laminal cells rounded to elliptic; distal cells 7-11 µm, smooth or slightly papillose, papillae low, simple. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves not differentiated from stem leaves. Seta 5-5.5 mm. Capsule cylindric and contracted at mouth when mature, fusiform to fusiform-cylindric when old and dry, 1.7-3.2 mm, strongly 8-ribbed 1/2-2/3 length, mouth small, distinctly smaller than mid capsule; stomata in neck and basal capsule; peristome single; exostome teeth split to 16, erect, flexuose-incurved, obscurely and densely papillose; endostome segments absent. Calyptra conic, very hairy. Spores 21-24 µm.
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