Plants in dense mats, yellow-green. Stems to 5 cm, irregularly branched, branches complanate-foliate. Leaves erect to spreading, oblong to oblong-ovate, , 2 mm; margins plane, subentire proximally, densely serrulate distally; apex obtuse, broadly apiculate, or sometimes acute; costa double, short; alar region gradually differentiated, 1-stratose, not reaching costa or reaching it in 2 or 3 rows. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta yellow, to 2.5 cm. Capsule long-cylindric, to 4 mm; annulus not differentiated; operculum long-conic; exostome teeth reddish, external surface striate proximally, papillose, becoming smooth distally, internal surface papillose to smooth, not perforate; endostome segments smooth to lightly papillose. Spores 13-15 µm.
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