Plants in compact tufts, yellowish green to light green, glossy. Stems 2-10 cm, tomentose throughout with reddish brown rhizoids. Leaves erect-spreading, erect-appressed to rarely spreading when dry, apex sometimes flex-uose, smooth, (2.5-)3-4.5(-6) × 0.3-0.5 mm, from a lanceolate base to a long, fine, tubulose subula, apex usually acute, sometimes apical leaves of stems blunt, julaceous; margins entire, rarely slightly denticulate at apex; laminae 1-stratose; costa percurrent or shortly excurrent, 1/6-1/4 the width of the leaves at base, smooth or weakly rough above on abaxial surface, abaxial ridges absent, with a row of guide cells, two stereid bands not extending to apex, adaxial and abaxial epidermal layers of cells usually not differentiated or sometimes a few cells in both layers enlarged; cell walls between lamina cells slightly bulging; leaf cells smooth; alar cells 1-stratose or 2-stratose, well-differentiated, not extending to costa; proximal laminal cells usually elongate, pitted, (14-)24-36(-49) × (2-)4-6(-9) µm; distal laminal cells short-rectangular, quadrate, rounded, or sometimes irregularly shaped, incrassate, not pitted, (5-)12-17(-23) × (4-)6-8(-9) µm. Sexual condition dioicous; male plants as large as females; interior perichaetial leaves abruptly short-acuminate, convolute-sheathing. Seta 1.5-2 cm., solitary, yellowish to yellowish brown or reddish yellow. Capsule 1.2-1.8 mm, nearly straight and erect to slightly arcuate, striate when dry, yellowish brown; operculum 1.2-1.8 mm. Spores 17-22 µm.
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