Plants in loose tufts, yellowish green, glossy. Stems 5-8 cm, scarcely tomentose with whitish to reddish brown rhizoids. Leaves erect or spreading, distal leaves with twisted apices when dry, slightly rugose, (3.5-)5-7(-8) × 1-1.5 mm, concave proximally, tubulose distally, from an ovate-lanceolate base to a long or short subula, broadly acute, some leaves short, ovate, somewhat obtuse, forming julaceous regions, in the middle or basal part of the stems; margins not or slightly serrate in the distal part, somewhat involute in the middle part; laminae 1-stratose; costa ending before the apex, 1/13-1/8 the width of the leaves at base, smooth or sometimes the distal part with two weakly serrated ridges on abaxial surface, row of guide cells, two stereid bands, adaxial and abaxial epidermal layers of cells not differentiated or sometimes a few cells in the abaxial layer differentiated; cell walls between lamina cells not bulging; leaf cells smooth; alar cells 2-stratose, differentiated, not extending to costa; proximal laminal cells elongate-sinuose, pitted, (42-)75-87(-107) × (7-)8-10(-16) µm; distal laminal cells short, sinuose, pitted, (16-)30-65(-79) × (7-)9-13(-16) µm. Sexual condition pseudomonoicous; dwarf males on rhizoids of female plants; interior perichaetial leaves abruptly long-acuminate, convolute-sheathing. Seta 2-4 cm, solitary, yellow, yellowish brown or reddish yellow. Capsule 2-3.5 mm, arcuate, inclined, smooth, ± furrowed when dry, yellow to yellowish brown; operculum 1.5-2 mm. Spores 14-24 µm.
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