Stems to 5 cm. Leaves to 6 mm, narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate to aciculose; leaf margins plane or some leaves shortly recurved at mid leaf, never to the apex, 1-stratose with patches of 2-stratose cells on one or both margins; cells of lamina essentially smooth with scattered low papilla, nearly smooth in apical region, thin-walled, often lax, angular, distal cells 12-14(-20) µm wide. Perigonium sessile. Seta ca. 1 cm, straight wet or dry. Capsule symmetrical, erect, not strumose; annulus well developed, deciduous, of 2 rows of large, separating cells.
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