Plants dark green or brownish. Stems with branches spreading, ± tightly foliate, not curved at apices. Stem and branch leaves similar. Stem leaves not much longer than broad, 0.6-0.8 mm; apex acute or sometimes narrowly blunt. Branch leaves somewhat crowded, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, ± 2-plicate basally, 0.4-0.5 mm; margins irregularly revolute proximally or beyond, especially when dry; apex acute or sometimes bluntly pointed; costa ending near apex; distal laminal cells 7-11µm, obscurely bulging-papillose on both surfaces, more noticeably so abaxially. Seta yellow-brown, becoming orange-brown or reddish with age, 0.5-0.8 cm. Capsule reddish, oblong-cylindric, straight to sometimes curved before dehiscence, 1.5-2.2 mm; annulus 1-or 2-seriate; operculum rounded-conic, ± pointed; exostome teeth pale yellowish to brownish yellow; endostome segments as long as exostome teeth. Spores 12-14 µm, very finely papillose.
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