Plants 0.5-1.5 cm. Stems both creeping and erect. Stem leaves curved, erect-appressed, slightly twisted and ± crisped when dry, linear-lanceolate, 1-2.2 mm; base ovate; margins plane; apex filiform-acuminate; basal laminal cells elongate to elongate-elliptic; distal cells 6-10 µm, sometimes smooth, or papillae conic, small. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves not differentiated from stem leaves. Seta 1.5-4 mm. Capsule pyriform, short-oblong to oblong-cylindric when old, 0.6-2.2 mm, slightly 8-ribbed 1/3-1/2 length, mouth wide but constricted below mouth or evenly tapering to seta from mouth; stomata near mid capsule; peristome double; exostome teeth reflexed, papillose, often reticulate at apex; endostome segments 8, smooth. Calyptra conic, sparsely hairy. Spores 35-60 µm.
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