Plants small, in loose tufts, dark green; corticolous. Stems 4-6 mm high, occasionally branched; in section round, central strand absent, inner cortical cells in 5-6 rows, large, slightly thickened, yellowish, outer cortical cells in 1-2 rows, smaller, incrassate, reddish. Leaves curled dry, wide-spreading wet; linear, 5.5-6.0 mm long; apex acute; base elongate, to 1.5 mm long, abruptly constricted to linear lamina; margins dentate above, with multicellular teeth, serrate at shoulders by projecting cells; in section thickened above base, forming round or quadrate knob, 4-5 cells thick, inner cells incrassate, round. Costa percurrent, gemmiferous at apex; in section wedge-shaped, guide cells 4-8, indistinct, ventral cells in 2-3 layers, incrassate, dorsal stereid band 4-5 cells thick, dorsal surface cells substereids. Upper laminal cells rounded, quadrate to transversely short-rectangular, papillose with 4-6 low, blunt papillae over lumen; marginal cells quadrate, slightly larger, smooth; basal marginal cells rectangular; cancellinae quadrate, teniolae absent. Gemmae clavate, produced on ventral costal surface at apex. Sporophyte not known in Africa.
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