Plants 3-5 mm, pale yellow-green. Leaves slightly contorted when dry, usually broadly ovate, 1.5-2.4 mm; margins entire or nearly so; apices acute to sub-acute, with a subulate tip; costa percurrent to excurrent into subula; basal laminal cells rectangular (75-100 × 30-40 µm), distal cells irregularly hexagonal to oblong rectangular, little differentiated at the margins. Seta 5-6 mm, straight. Capsule reddish brown with age, pyriform from a narrowed neck about half as long as the sporangium, about 2 mm, changing little when dry and empty, sometimes mouth flaring; exothecial cells thickened, narrowly oblong, with orange-brown walls, transversely elongate in 4-6 rows below the mouth; operculum convex-conic; peristome absent or rudimentary, exostome teeth pale brownish yellow, barely extending beyond the capsule rim and terminating in a rather blunt to short-acute point, slightly papillose, 2-3 articulations present, endostome not seen. Calyptra cucullate, long-beaked, inflated around the capsule, large, smooth. Spores 25-35 µm, rough (probably bacculate-insulate).
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