Plants to 20 cm, green, yellow-green, or reddish yellow. Stems slender, rigid; stem and branch apices short-attenuate; axillary hairs 450-530 µm, 5-10 cells, basal cells quadrate, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline or reddish. Leaves weakly dimorphic or monomorphic. Stem leaves erect-spreading when dry, erect when moist, , oblong-lanceolate, moderately concave, 2.5-4 mm; margins not reflexed when dry, erect to incurved at apex when moist; apex acute to obtuse; medial laminal cells 50-80 × 5-8 µm. Branch leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, strongly concave, 1.5-2 mm; margins incurved and serrulate at apex; apex acute. Perigonia with leaves0.7-0.8 mm. Perichaetia with leaves ovate to suboval, 2.6-3 mm, apex broadly rounded. Seta 0.2 mm. Capsule emergent, cylindric to subcylindric, 2-3 mm; operculum conic, 0.5 mm; endostome trellis nearly perfect. Calyptra1.5 mm. Spores 20-40 µm.