Stems 5-10 mm, central strand small. Leaves broadly oblong to elliptic, 3-4 mm; apices broadly acute, mucronate; margins plane to erect or incurved distally or weakly recurved proximally; costa percurrent to subpercurrect, narrow, papillose distally on adaxial surface; laminal cells 15-25 µm; basal cells 25-75 µm, walls thickened, smooth; basal marginal cells weakly differentiated, longer than laminal cells, in 3-5 rows. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Seta 4-6 mm, yellow-brown. Capsule cylindric, 1.8-2 mm, smooth to weakly wrinkled when dry, gymnostomous, yellowish brown; exothecial cells quadrate, walls thickened; peristome absent; operculum 0.5 mm. Calyptra 3-4 mm, irregularly fringed at base, weakly papillose to essentially smooth. Spores 30-35 µm, finely pitted, reddish brown.