Plants small, loosely caespitose to caespitose, yellowish green or reddish green above, reddish brown to brown below; terricolous. Stems 2-10 mm tall, simple or branching by subperichaetial innovations, occasionally tomentose below; rhizoids red-brown or brownish, papillose, tubers 120-240 µm, pale brown to reddish brown. Leaves comose, smaller below, imbricate above when dry, erect to erect-spreading wet, concave; broadly ovate to triangular, 0.5-1.1 mm long; apex acute to acuminate; margins plane to frequently recurved, entire to denticulate above; border absent. Costa strong, mucronate to shortly aristate, yellowish to red, occasionally hyaline above, awn 0.1-0.3 mm long; in section sub round to round, laminal insertion ventral, ventral surface cells present, dorsal stereid band strong, stereids in 2-4 rows, dorsal surface cells incrassate, hydroids present between guide cells and stereid band. Upper laminal cells rhomboidal, thin-walled to incrassate, (25-)35-63 µm long, 10-23 µm wide; basal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, frequently thickened at the comers, generally pitted. Gemmae occasionally present, ovoid, stalked, axillary, green to yellowish green or reddish brown to brown, 80-200 µm long. Dioicous. Perichaetia terminal, leaves oblong-lanceolate to triangular. Seta 15-18 mm long, red to reddish brown; capsule pendulous, ovoid, 1.0-1.8 mm long, red, neck short, broadly rounded to seta, wrinkled when dry; exothecial cells irregular in shape, incrassate, shorter towards mouth; 2-3 rows at mouth transversely elongated; peristome double, exostome teeth oblong-acuminate, reddish or orange, hyaline above, finely papillose, endostome segments tapering above, widely perforated, cilia 2-3, appendiculate, basal membrane high, yellowish, finely papillose; operculum convex, mammillate; spores 12-15 µm, smooth to weakly papillose.
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