Plants 6-10 mm. Leaves deltoid-ovate, oblong-ovate or lanceolate, 0.6-2 mm, margins recurved to erect distally, usually undiffer-entiated, apex obtuse or rounded, serrulate, with abaxial papillae, piliferous; costa excurrent, with an inconspicuous abaxial epidermis, filaments of 4-10 cells, cells cylindric to subspheric, [thick-walled, terminal cell rectangular, subspheric or conic with 2-5 solid papillae; cells of leaf base 11-70 µm, medial and distal cells 9-33 µm, smooth, thick-walled. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 5-20 mm. Capsule urn short-cylindric to ovoid-cylindric, 1-2.7 mm; operculum 0.6-1.1 mm; peristome short, nearly straight, cribose at base to long and strongly twisted, 198-1160 µm. Spores spheric, 9-22 µm.