Plants in dense tufts, glaucous to brownish green. Stems 1-3 cm. Leaves stiffly erect-appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm; base not sheathing, shoulders absent; margins recurved from near base to distal acumen, serrulate distally, teeth single; apex narrowly aristate; costa excurrent, abaxially prominent, distal abaxial surface rough; basal laminal cell walls thin; medial and distal cells 12-20 × 4-6 µm, prorulae low. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta 0.1-1.5 cm, straight. Capsule erect, subglobose to ovoid, symmetric, 1.4-2 mm; operculum conic convex; peristome single; exostome teeth 250-300 µm, striolate papillose proximally, smooth distally; endostome absent. Spores 22-26 µm.