Stems 3-8 cm; cortical cells small, walls thick; pseudoparaphyllia few; rhizoids few, in clusters just below leaf insertion, smooth. Leaves crowded, upturned-homomallous particularly near branch ends, scarcely altered on drying, concave, 1-2 × 0.5-0.8 mm; alar cells enlarged, yellow-brown, walls thick, region in several rows of cells, concave; basal laminal cell walls pitted; medial cells linear, 55-95 × 5-8 µm, walls moderately thick. Seta 1.5-3.2 cm, flexuose. Capsule reddish orange-brown, 1.7-3 mm, slightly wrinkled when dry; endostome segments not or narrowly perforated along keel. Spores 10-18 µm, yellow.