Plants yellowish green to reddish or distal leaves divaricate when brown. Stems 3-5 cm. Leaves erect, imbricate when dry, spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate, distal lamina 1 (or 2)-stratose at margins, 2.5–4.5 mm; margins singly or doubly serrate distally; costa percurrent or short-excurrent, abaxial surface smooth; inner basal laminal cells quadrate or short-rectangular; distal cells rectangular to oblong, 25 × 4–10 µm, smooth or few cells bearing low prorulae on abaxial side. Seta 0.5–1.2 cm. Capsule 2–2.8 mm; operculum conic-obtuse; peristome usually absent, when present variously developed, usually broken, sometimes as low thin membrane below mouth. Spores 18–32 µm.