[efloras.org] Description: Plants 6 - 10 mm. Leaves deltoid-ovate, oblong-ovate or lanceolate, 0.6 - 2 mm, margins recurved to erect distally, usually undifferentiated, apex obtuse or rounded, serrulate, with abaxial papillae, piliferous; costa excurrent, with an inconspicuous abaxial epidermis, filaments of 4 - 10 cells, cells cylindric to subspheric, [thick-walled, terminal cell rectangular, subspheric or conic with 2 - 5 solid papillae; cells of leaf base 11 - 70 µm, medial and distal cells 9 - 33 µm, smooth, thick-walled. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 5 - 20 mm. Capsule urn short-cylindric to ovoid-cylindric, 1 - 2.7 mm; operculum 0.6 - 1.1 mm; peristome short, nearly straight, cribose at base to long and strongly twisted, 198 - 1160 µm. Spores spheric, 9 -22 µm. (link added by Mary Ann Machi)