Plants small, loosely caespitose, light green to yellow-green; terricolous or saxicolous. Stems 2-4 mm high, branching below; in section round, central strand large or small, cortical cells lax, outer 1-2 rows smaller. Leaves closely incurved dry, widely spreading wet; oblong to narrowly oval, 1.8-2.5 mm long, upper and subperichaetial leaves linear; apex rounded-obtuse, cucullate, mucronate; base oblong; margins broadly incurved, entire. Costa percurrent to short-excurrent, ventral superficial cells quadrate, papillose, dorsal superficial cells rectangular, smooth; in section round, guide cells 2-4, ventral stereid band 2-3 cells thick, ventral surface cells similar to laminal cells, papillose, dorsal stereid band 4 cells thick, dorsal surface cells undifferentiated, smooth. Upper laminal cells quadrate to subquadrate, ventral surface bulging, papillae numerous, low, simple or raised on incrassate mammillae, dorsal surface flat, papillae numerous, low, simple; basal cells rectangular, hyaline, smooth, thin-walled. Autoicous. Perigonia on short lateral branches; perichaetia terminal, leaves linear, acute. Seta to 4 mm long, yellow; capsule cylindrical, 1 mm long, conspicuously constricted below mouth dry, yellowish, mouth red; peristome absent; operculum rostrate, 0.6 mm long; spores round, 20-22 µm, papillose.
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