Plants 0.4-4 cm. Stems erect. Stem leaves erect-appressed, stiff, ± slightly curled or twisted around stem, not contorted or crisped when dry, narrowly lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate, 1.4-2.2 mm; base oblong; margins ± recurved to near apex; apex acute to obtuse; basal laminal cells rectangular to elongate-rectangular; distal cells 7-14 µm, papillae conic or clavate, small or large. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves not differentiated from stem leaves. Seta 2.5-3.5 mm. Capsule oblong-elliptic to cylindric-fusiform, 1.1-2 mm, slightly to moderately 8-ribbed 1/3-1/2 length, mouth wide but constricted below mouth or evenly tapering to seta from mouth; stomata in neck; peristome double; exostome teeth rarely split to 16, reflexed, densely papillose; endostome segments 8, papillose-striate. Calyptra oblong-conic, very hairy. Spores 9-16 µm.
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