Plants large, loose-tufted, yellow-green to brownish; corticolous. Primary stems long-creeping; secondary stems erect to subpendent, 20-50 mm long, branches few, rare; in section oval, central strand absent, inner cortical cells thin-walled, hyaline, in up to 9 rows, outer cortical cells smaller, thick-walled, in 6-8 rows; paraphyllia absent; pseudoparaphyllia filamentous. Leaves evenly spaced, in ranks, squarrose wet or dry, weakly rugose; stem leaves broadly ovate or lanceolate, 2.5-5.5 mm long; narrowly acuminate; rounded to cordate at base; margins plane, serrulate. Costa single, ending in acumen, smooth; in section elliptical or flat, guide cells not differentiated, ventral cells in a single row, dorsal cells larger, in single row. Upper laminal cells elliptical, homogeneous, 10-35 µm long, 4-7 µm wide, walls thickened and pitted, smooth; basal cells linear, 50-75 µm long, 5-7 µm wide, yellowish to brownish, walls thickened and pitted, smooth; alar cells not strongly differentiated, short-rectangular, brownish, walls thickened and pitted. Gemmae scattered along stems, cylindrical to clavate, brownish, smooth. Sporophyte not known from the Flora area.
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