Plants medium-sized to large, in loose, extensive tufts or mats, dull, green, yellow-brownish or olive to green-brown. Stems (1-)2-7 cm or occasionally up to 10 cm long, prostrate to ascending, irregularly sparsely branched, usually radiculose at base. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, (2.8-)3.2-4.0(-4.2) × 0.8-1(-1.1) mm; margins 1-stratose throughout, recurved on both sides to about 3/4-7/8 of way up the leaf; apices slenderly long acuminate, obtuse to subacute, irregularly bluntly erose-dentate, cristate to papillose-crenulate, rarely entire at the extreme apex; costa subpercurrent, (80-)90-120(-135) µm wide; laminal cells 1-stratose throughout. Seta brown, (4.5-)5.5-7.5(-9) mm. Capsule brown, cylindric, (2-)2.3-3(-3.2) mm, smooth; peristome teeth 500-650 µm, dark yellow to orange-brown, regularly 2-fid to the base, densely papillose with tall, spiculose papillae. Spores 10-16 µm.