Entosthodon lindigii (Hampe) Mitt., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 12: 243. 1869.

Amphoritheca lindigii Hampe, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. sér. 5, 3: 341. 1865. Protologue: Colombia. Bogota, Pancho, alt 3200 metr., ad Barrancas, julio. leg. A. Lindig. Lectotype (Fife, 1987): Colombia (Nova Granata). Bogotá, Pacho, Jul 1863, A. Lindig s.n. (lectotype, BM; isolectotypes BM, NY). 

Plants yellow‑brown. Stems erect, to 4 mm high, simple or branching by subperigonial innovation, usually naked at base, leaves clustered above, with a single‑layered sclerodermis over 2–3 rows of small reddish thick‑walled cells, central strand present. Leaves erect when dry, slightly contorted, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, gradually tapered to a long, slender acumen, usually long-aristate, to 2 mm long, concave; margins entire; costa ending in acumen, sometimes fused with arista; apical cells 150–330 μm long, upper cells oblong-hexagonal, thin‑walled, smooth, 37–65 x 14–25 μm, not differentiated at the margins, toward the insertion longer more oblong, alar cells not differentiated. Autoicous. Setae reddish brown, lightly twisted when dry, weakly hygroscopic, smooth at base, coarsely papillose in upper _, to 7 mm long. Capsules erect, reddish brown, narrowly pyriform to pyriform, neck 1/2 the capsule length, symmetric, mouth transverse, constricted below the mouth when dry, wrinkled to sulcate in the neck, smooth above, 1.2–1.5 mm long; exothecial cells elongate, thick-walled, shorter in the neck, becoming oblate and thick‑walled in more or less 6 rows at the mouth; stomata phaneroporous, numerous in neck; opercula plano‑convex; annuli simple; peristome double and rudimentary or absent. Spores 25–35 μm in diameter, coarsely bullate. Calyptrae cucullate‑rostrate, naked, smooth.