Plants dark green or brownish. Stems with branches spreading, loosely foliate, not curved at apices. Stem and branch leaves similar. Stem leaves [occasionally very slightly plicate], not much longer than broad, 0.9-1.2 mm; apex rounded-obtuse to sometimes acute or short-acuminate. Branch leaves remote, elliptic or broadly oblong-ovate, not plicate, 0.4-0.8 mm; margins erect, not revolute, slightly incurved when dry; apex rounded-obtuse; costa ending 8-10 cells before apex; distal laminal cells 6-9µm, indistinctly bulging-papillose abaxially. Seta yellow to orange-brown, 0.5-1.2 cm. Capsule yellow-brown, oblong-cylindric, straight, 1.5-2.3 mm; annulus 2-or 3-seriate; operculum rounded-conic, blunt; exostome teeth yellow; endostome segments less than 1/3 exostome length. Spores 11-18 µm, very finely papillose.