Plants small, in open to dense turfs, sometimes as scattered individuals, light green to pink-green, often brown proximally. Stems 0.5-2(-3) cm, evenly foliate, unbranched to freely branched by subfloral innovations; rhizoids few to many, macronemata absent. Leaves flexuose to weakly secund or sometimes imbricate when dry, erect to erect-spreading when moist, elliptic, ovate, oblong, or sometimes broadly lanceolate, somewhat concave, 0.5-2 mm; base not decurrent; margins plane or narrowly revolute proximally, entire or rarely weakly serrulate distally, 1-stratose, limbidium absent; apex rounded-obtuse to broadly acute or sometimes acuminate; costa subpercurrent to percurrent or rarely excurrent, hair-point present when excurrent, guide cells usually absent; alar cells irregularly short-to long-rectangular, not distinctly differentiated; laminal areolation homogeneous; proximal laminal cells rhomboidal to elongate-rhomboidal, 4-6:1; medial and distal cells rhomboidal to elongate-rhomboidal, 4-6:1, walls thin, not pitted. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonia and perichaetia usually appearing lateral due to rapid innovation growth, leaves same size as or somewhat smaller than vegetative leaves. Seta single, curved to flexuose. Capsule erect, horizontal, or nutant, subglobose to broadly pyriform, 1.2-2.5 mm; hypophysis not enlarged or inflated; operculum flat to convex, apiculate or umbonate; peristome single, typically exostomial but sometimes of unknown origin, or absent; exostome hyaline, teeth slender, irregularly linear-lanceolate. Spores not shed in tetrads, 10-20(-24) µm, smooth or finely papillose, pale.
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