Growing in lax, light green, shining mats on bark or humus; main stem prostrate, black, wiry; erect stems 1-3 cm long, dendroid in habit, subpinnately or fastigiatelv few-branched; leaves 1-1 x 5 mm long, ovate-acute, set all round the stem, or sometimes secund, laxly appressed, and almost julaceous when dry, not plicate, erecto-patent when moist, somewhat concave, with the margin reflexed near the base. Nerve very wide at the base, tapering out beyond mid-leaf, smooth on the back; apex acute; margin sharply dentate from near the base of the leaf; cells with oval to elliptical twisted lumen 30 µ long, with twisted line along its middle (SS), chlorophyllose when green, dotted and drawn to one end when dry; marginal cells pellucid, exserted as teeth; lower cells rather longer, except the marginal in many lines which are quadrate and small on the margin, extending shortly up the margin and larger and oblique toward the nerve. Perichaetal leaves high-sheathing; the inner lanceolate-pointed from sheathing base, nearly entire, and almost nerveless. Seta smooth, red, straight, 1 cm long; capsule erect, oval, with shortly conical-rostrate lid, sometimes oblique. Teeth red, smooth, of about ten joints without mid-line; inner peristome absent; ring deep, enclosing the teeth, dehiscent.
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