Plants small to medium-sized, forming mats, green; humicolous or saxicolous. Stems creeping, 10-30 mm long, branching sparse, irregular; in section oval, central strand absent, inner cortical cells large, thin-walled, outer cortical cells larger, thin-walled. Leaves somewhat distant, spreading wet, spreading and weakly crisped dry; asymmetrical, oblong to lingulate, 1.2-2.5 mm long; apex rounded and apiculate; narrowed to insertion; margins plane, serrate above, entire below, weakly bordered by elongated cells, unistratose. Costa double, ending below apex, smooth but each ending in a dorsal tooth; in section bulging dorsally, consisting of a small group of weakly thickened cells. Upper laminal cells quadrate to hexagonal, homogeneous, 25-37 µm long, walls thin, smooth on both surfaces; basal cells forming distinct group, rectangular to rhomboidal, 50-75 µm long, 25 µm wide, greenish, walls thin, smooth; alar cells not differentiated. Autoicous. Perigonia on stem, gemmate; perigonial leaves lanceolate. Perichaetia along stem, small, green; perichaetial leaves ovate-acuminate, 1.0-1.5 mm long, leaf cells large, thin-walled. Seta 14-18 mm long, red-brown, smooth. Capsule exserted, horizontal, ellipsoid, 1-2 mm long, smooth, red-brown, urn ellipsoidal; neck tapering, shorter than urn; exothecial cells rectangular, walls firm, cells at mouth smaller, quadrate to rectangular, neck cells rectangular; stomata phaneropore, on neck, consisting of 3-6 cells, some not functional. Peristome double, red-yellow; exostome teeth lanceolate, inflexed at tip dry, incurved appressed wet, striate below with a deep but broad median furrow, coarsely papillose by a few scattered papillae above, 450 µm high; endostome segments lanceolate, keeled above basal membrane, as long as teeth, papillose; cilia single, rudimentary, granulate. Operculum rostrate, 1.0-1.2 mm long. Calyptra mitrate, 1.5-1.8 mm long, rough. Spores rounded, 8-12 µm, granulate, green.
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