Plants small, loosely caespitose, light green; terricolous. Stems 2-8 mm tall, simple; in section round, central strand present, inner cortical cells lax, becoming smaller toward margin, incrassate, outer cortical cells in 1-2 rows, substereids, reddish brown. Leaves crisped dry, spreading wet; lanceolate to ovate-ligulate, 1.0-1.8 mm long; apex obtuse, apiculate; margins plane to infrequently recurved below, entire. Costa short-excurrent, ventral superficial cells rectangular, smooth, dorsal superficial cells rectangular, strongly prorate; in section subround, guide cells 2-4, ventral stereid band small, 1-2 cells thick, ventral surface cells substereids or only incrassate; dorsal stereid band large, 4-5 cells thick, dorsal surface cells substereids, outer walls strongly thickened, lumen frequently lunate. Upper laminal cells quadrate or some hexagonal, somewhat thickened, with 3-4 large, C-shaped papillae over lumen; basal cells oblong, elongate, hyaline, smooth. Gemmae axillary or on axillary rhizoids, multicellular, obovoid, 70-100 µm, brownish. Dioicous. Perichaetia terminal; leaves to 2 mm long, weakly differentiated. Seta 3-6 mm long, yellowish; capsules short-cylindrical, 0.8-1.2 mm long, reddish yellow; peristome erect or weakly twisted, fragile, teeth linear, papillose, red-brown; operculum conical, 0.4-0.6 mm long; spores round, 10-14 µm, smooth.
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Stems to 1.2 cm. Leaves firm when wet, long-ovate to ligulate, 0.5-1.8(-2) mm, base often elliptic, widened not strongly sheathing, margins plane or weakly recurved to mid leaf, apex broadly acute to rounded, apiculate or occasionally muticous; costa percurrent or ending 1-4 cells before the apex, abaxial costal surface doubly prorate (rough by projections at each end of superficial cells), often also with simple or 2-fid papillae, hydroids absent; distal laminal cells firm-walled, quadrate, 7-10 µm wide, 1:1, papillose. Specialized asexual reproduction by gemmae borne on stalks in leaf axils. Perichaetial leaves obtuse to broadly acute, strongly sheathing and convolute. Seta 1-1.8 cm. Theca 0.8-1.2 mm. Spores 10-12 µm.
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