Plants small, yellowish to golden green or brownish, glossy. Stems 1-3(-6) cm, not complanate-foliate, irregularly branched. Leaves appressed to erect-spreading, sometimes weakly secund, ovate; margins toothed at apex; apex broadly acute; ecostate or costa 2-fid; alar cells rounded, somewhat inflated, pigmented or not, walls thin, region in 1 row, middle lamella not apparent, supra-alar cells differentiated; laminal cells linear-flexuose to hexagonal, smooth. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 1-1.5 cm. Capsule inclined, sometimes nodding when dry and operculate, ovoid to short-cylindric; exothecial cells with longitudinal walls slightly thicker than radial walls; operculum short-rostrate.