Plants 10-15 mm, pale olivaceous. Leaves oval to ovate-lanceolate, 1.1-1.6 × 0.3-0.6 mm, margins incurved distally, apex plane, awn 0.1-0.6 mm, lamina 2-plicate, plications never extended to base; basal juxtacostal laminal cells short-to long-rectangular, 21-55 × 9-12 µm, evenly thick-walled; basal marginal laminal cells quadrate to long-rectangular, 12-51 × 9-15 µm, thin or thick end walls and thin lateral walls; medial laminal cells 1-stratose; distal laminal cells 2-3-stratose. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 1.5-1.8 mm. Capsule exserted, cylindrical; peristome present, cribrose, xerocastique.