Plants pale green or brownish. Stems with branches spreading, loosely foliate, somewhat curved at apices. Stem and branch leaves differentiated. Stem leaves distinctly longer than broad, 0.8-1.2 mm; apex somewhat obliquely acuminate and subsecund. Branch leaves remote to ± crowded, ovate-lanceolate, not or slightly plicate, 0.5-0.8 mm; margins plane to somewhat recurved proximally; apex blunt or acute, usually somewhat oblique and subsecund; costa ending near apex; distal laminal cells 7-9 µm, papillose abaxially. Seta orange-brown to red, 0.7-1.2 cm. Capsule brown to yellow-brown, subcylindric, curved, 2-3 mm; annulus 2 (or 3)-seriate; operculum short to occasionally long-conic; exostome teeth yellowish to brownish yellow; endostome segments somewhat shorter than exostome teeth. Spores 9-13 µm, very finely papillose or nearly smooth.
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