Plants in dense cushions or turfs, green-silver to pink-silver. Stems0.4-2 cm. Leaves erect when moist, spathulate to somewhat elongate-ovate, concave, 0.3-2 mm; margins serrulate to serrate near apex, limbidium absent; apex broadly rounded to acute, not hyaline; costa percurrent in proximal leaves to long-excurrent in distal leaves, awn pigmented proximally, hyaline distally, weakly to strongly recurved when dry; distal laminal cells green, hexagonal to rhomboidal, 40-60 µm, 3-4+:1, walls not thick or sinuate. [Capsule cylindric, 2-4 mm; hypophysis well differentiated, somewhat expanded and rugose. Spores 17-25 µm].
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