Plants in lax to dense tufts, glaucous or dark green. Stems 0.5-1 cm. Leaves erect-appressed when dry, erect and slightly spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm; base sheathing, shoulders well developed, firm, ; margins plane to weakly revolute proximally, plane distally, serrulate distally, teeth single; apex subulate, ; costa percurrent, prominent in distal limb, distal abaxial surface rough; basal laminal cell walls thin; distal cells 12-25 × 4-6 µm, prorulae high. Sexual condition autoicous or synoicous. Seta 1-2 cm, straight. Capsule erect, globose to ovoid, symmetric, 1-1.5 mm; operculum conic; peristome absent. Spores 24-35 µm.