Plants to 15 cm, green, yellowish, or yellow-brown. Stems with axillary hairs 200-300 µm, basal cells 1 or 2, quadrate, distal cells 4 or 5, long-cylindric. Leaves strongly 3-ranked, flexuose-spreading to weakly falcate at stem and branch apices, lanceolate, 3-5 mm, medial stem leaves 0.7-1.4 mm wide; margins plane or very narrowly recurved, entire proximally; apex acute, acuminate, or subulate; costa subpercurrent, percurrent, or variously excurrent; alar cells not or slightly enlarged; medial laminal cells 120-200 × 6-8 µm. Perichaetia with leaves not overtopping capsule. Seta 10-15 mm. Capsule exserted, oval to oblong-cylindric, 1-2 mm; operculum obliquely long-rostrate, 0.5-1 mm; exostome teeth finely papillose; endostome yellowish brown, finely papillose, trellis perfect. Calyptra 3-6 mm. Spores 12-14 µm.
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