Autoecious; prostrate stems long and straggling, up to 1.5 inch long, often growing on soil but usually on bark, little-branched, pale, with homomallous leaves; erect stems 3-5 mm long, closely leaved, often densely catkin-like, with hair-points only showing out; leaves 1-1-5 mm long, ovate-acuminate, hair-pointed, concave, nerved half-way, with rather long, twisted, linear areolation; basal cells few and quadrate; margin more or less strongly ciliated from the base to near the apex by single hyaline cells; per. leaves short, nerveless, ciliated; capsule 4-6 mm long, erect, pear-shaped when fresh, shortly and widely cup-shaped when dry, but with eight bundles of rather long peristome teeth sometimes one-third as long as the dry capsule; lid obliquely rostellate; beak as long as the capsule is wide.
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