Plants small, gregarious, reddish green; terricolous. Stems erect, 0.5-1.0 mm tall; in section without central strand, cortical cells large, weakly thickened, smaller at margin, yellowish red. Leaves erect dry, erect-spreading wet; oblong-obovate to oval, 0.8-1.2 mm long; apex acute, sometimes abruptly so; margins revolute above base, entire. Costa excurrent, awn 0.1-1.0 mm long, reddish to yellowish; ventral superficial cells quadrate, papillose to near apex, absent above and exposing elongate, smooth cells, dorsal superficial cells elongate, smooth; in section round, guide cells 2, small, incrassate, ventral cells in single layer, 2-4, large, papillose, dorsal stereid band 3 cells thick, dorsal surface cells frequently substereids. Upper laminal cells quadrate to subhexagonal, sometimes short-rectangular, with 2-6 low, C-shaped papillae over lumen, rarely smooth; basal cells larger, quadrate to rectangular or some angular, smooth. Autoicous, frequently polysetaceous. Perichaetial leaves undifferentiated. Seta very short, 0.2-0.3 mm long; capsule cleistocarpic, emergent, reddish yellow, short-elliptical to subglobose, rostrate, 0.4-0.5 mm long, exothecial cells quadrate at apex and base, median cells narrowly oblong to triangular; calyptra cucullate, small, 0.4 mm long; spores round to oval, 25-33 µm, smooth to irregularly granulate.
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