Plants yellowish to green, 2-6 mm. Leaves erect-appressed or loosely erect-flexuose when dry, erect-spreading when moist, 1-2 mm, lanceolate; margins entire or minutely serrulate at the apex, recurved proximally; costa ending at or near the apex; cells thin-walled, rectangular, 5-7:1. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta yellow, 4-6 mm. Capsule 0.5-0.8 mm, erect, subglobose, smooth; annulus large, ± persistent; operculum curved, long-rostrate; peristome teeth 90-180 µm, papillose, entire or somewhat perforate along the middle. Spores 12-22 µm, finely papillose.