Plants to 40 cm, yellow-red, yellowish green, green, dark green, or brown. Stems slender to occasionally robust, rigid; stem and branch apices , short-attenuate, ; axillary hairs to 820 µm, 6-10 cells, basal cell quadrate, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline. Leaves monomorphic, imbricate to erect-appressed when dry, erect to erect-spreading in 3 ranks when moist, ovate, oblong-ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or suborbiculate, keeled and conduplicate, concave, , 2-8 mm; margins occasionally broadly reflexed on one side proximally; apex acute, broadly acute, or rounded obtuse; medial laminal cells 100-150 × 12-18µm. Perigonia with leaves 1.2-1.4 mm. Perichaetia with leaves oval to suborbiculate, 2-3 mm, apex obtuse. Seta0.2-0.3 mm. Capsule immersed to slightly emergent, ovoid to subcylindric, 2-2.7 mm; operculum obtuse-conic, 0.7-1.5 mm; endostome trellis perfect. Calyptra 1.3-1.6 mm. Spores 14-20 µm.