Plants very small, scattered or in small groups, yellow-green; terricolous. Stems 0.2-0.4 mm high, simple; in section subround, central strand present, cortical cells in 3-4 rows. Leaves crowded, larger above, erect-spreading wet or dry; ovate-acuminate, 0.5-1.0 mm long, bistratose above; margins plane, entire. Costa percurrent to short-excurrent; ventral and dorsal superficial cells elongate, smooth; in section flattened, guide cells 2-4, weakly differentiated, ventral cells incrassate, in 1-2 rows, dorsal cells subquadrate, in 3 rows. Upper laminal cells quadrate to rectangular, incrassate, smooth; basal cells rectangular, incrassate, hyaline.Dioicous. Perigonia terminal. Perichaetia terminal; leaves oblong-acuminate, 1.2-1.5 mm long. Seta 0.2 mm long, hyaline; capsule cleistocarpic, cylindrical-rostrate, 1 mm long, yellow, beak to 0.2 mm long, neck short, 0.2 mm long, stomata superficial (phaneropore); exothecial cells quadrate, thin-walled; calyptra mitrate, 0.4 mm long, covering upper capsule only; spores sub-round to reniform, 25-30 µm, vermiculate to papillose, red-brown.
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