Plants dark green, yellowish, or brownish, dull. Stems ± straight, not subjulaceous when dry. Leaves wide-spreading to squarrose when dry or moist, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, gradually to abruptly narrowed to apex, 0.9-1.4 mm; margins entire or faintly serrate distally; apex pale or yellowish; costa 1/2-2/3 leaf length, slender; basal laminal cells oblate; medial cells oval, rounded, or rhombic, 8-10µm, bluntly 1-papillose; apical cells oblong, smooth. Specialized asexual reproduction by brood branches often present in leaf axils, in ± straight, dense clusters. Seta 0.6-0.8 cm. Capsule 1.5 mm. Spores 18-23 µm, very minutely roughened.