Plants 0.5-1.5(-6) cm. Stem leaves flexuose when dry, erect to wide-spreading when moist, lanceolate proximally, abruptly long-linear distally, to 4-5 mm; base elliptic, not decurrent; margins entire or sometimes denticulate near apex; apex narrowly acuminate; costa wide, ending in apex; laminal cells clear. Specialized asexual reproduction by red, rounded brood bodies in leaf axils or on rhizoids. Sexual condition synoicous, occasionally apparently dioicous. Seta 1-4.5 cm. Capsule 1.5-2.5 mm. Spores 9-13 µm.