Plants small to medium-sized, in loose tufts, green to yellowish or grayish. Stems to 6 cm, creeping or arching, terete-foliate, irregularly branched, branches to 8 mm, straight to curved, terete-foliate. Stem leaves appressed or erect, closely imbricate, ovate-triangular, concave, not or slightly plicate, 1-1.5(-1.8) × 0.6-0.9(-1.1) mm; base short-decurrent, ; recurved proximally, plane distally, serrulate almost throughout; apex gradually tapered, acute or short-acuminate; costa to 40-70% leaf length, weak to strong, terminal abaxial spine absent; alar cells 15 × 10 µm, walls as thick as in laminal cells, region conspicuous, opaque or weakly pellucid; laminal cells elongate, 30-70 × 6-11 µm; basal juxtacostal cells not clearly differentiated, slightly shorter than laminal cells, region in 3-6 rows. Branch leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta orange-brown, 1-1.7 cm, rough. Capsule inclined to horizontal, orange-brown, ovate, curved dorsally, to 1.8 mm. Spores 12-16 µm. Plants small to medium-sized, in loose tufts, green to yellowish or grayish. Stems to 6 cm, creeping or arching, terete-foliate, irregularly branched, branches to 8 mm, straight to curved, terete-foliate. Stem leaves appressed or erect, closely imbricate, ovate-triangular, concave, not or slightly plicate, 1-1.5(-1.8) × 0.6-0.9(-1.1) mm; base short-decurrent, ; recurved proximally, plane distally, serrulate almost throughout; apex gradually tapered, acute or short-acuminate; costa to 40-70% leaf length, weak to strong, terminal abaxial spine absent; alar cells 15 × 10 µm, walls as thick as in laminal cells, region conspicuous, opaque or weakly pellucid; laminal cells elongate, 30-70 × 6-11 µm; basal juxtacostal cells not clearly differentiated, slightly shorter than laminal cells, region in 3-6 rows. Branch leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta orange-brown, 1-1.7 cm, rough. Capsule inclined to horizontal, orange-brown, ovate, curved dorsally, to 1.8 mm. Spores 12-16 µm.General Information
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