Plants medium-sized, scattered or gregarious, green to yellow-green; corticolous. Primary stems creeping; secondary stems erect (perpendicular to substrate), julaceous, up to 60 mm long, branching regular, pinnate; in section round, central strand absent, inner cortical cells large, thin-walled, hyaline, in 4 or 5 rows, outer cortical cells smaller, thick-walled, yellow, in 2 or 3 rows; axillary hairs short, basal cells differentiated, brownish; paraphyllia absent; pseudo-paraphyllia sparse, short and filamentous. Leaves crowded, widespreading wet, loosely appressed dry; ovate to lanceolate, 1.6-2.6 mm long; acuminate; rounded and narrowed to insertion, decurrent; margins plane, almost entire to serrate above. Costa single, ending in acumen or subpercurrent, smooth; ventral surface smooth, cells elongate; dorsal surface smooth, cells elongate; in section subround, bulging dorsally, 2 or 3 rows of undifferentiated cells. Upper laminal cells rhombic or rounded, homogeneous, 12-25 µm long, 7-10 µm wide, walls weakly thickened, smooth; basal cells not strongly differentiated, linear, 30-40 µm long, 7-10 µm wide, walls weakly thickened, smooth; alar cells forming distinct groups, quadrate or transversely rectangular, walls weakly thickened. Perigonia on stem, gemmate; leaves ovate-acuminate, to 1 mm long. Perichaetia strongly differentiated; leaves sheathing, oblong, abruptly aristate, 2-3 mm long; leaf cells linear-fusiform, weakly thickened. Seta 0.2 mm long, whitish, smooth. Capsule immersed but visible through perichaetial leaf awns, erect, cylindrical, up to 1.5 mm long, smooth, brown; neck not differentiated; exothecial cells somewhat irregular, quadrate to short rectangular, walls thin, deteriorating below with age, cells at mouth darker, quadrate; neck cells not differentiated; annulus present, vesiculose; stomata absent. Peristome white to yellowish; exostome teeth narrowly triangular, incurved and sigmoid dry, recurved wet, papillose, 320-350 µm high; endostome segments linear, almost as long as teeth, papillose, basal membrane absent, cilia absent. Operculum conical, erect, 0.4 mm long. Calyptra campanulate and split along one side, 0.5-0.7 mm long, smooth. Spores rounded, 22-31 µm, granulate, light brown.
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