Stems dendroid at the base, arching over and rooting at the apex, 2-pinnate, 1-3 inches long; the branches up to 1 inch long, the larger with leaves imbricate, erecto-patent; the smaller with leaves often as long but much more scattered and more spreading; the stem leaves hardly 1 mm long, very wide at the clasping base, quickly narrowed to a long flat subula; the larger branches with leaves 1-1.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, concave; nerve not visible; margin erect, denticulate or strongly denticulate; back of the leaf hardly or only slightly papillose, the cells being shortly and widely vermicular, rather drawn to the apex, but hardly papillose; alar cells numerous on stem leaves, few on branch leaves. Perichaetal leaves numerous, erect or homomallous, lanceolate-acuminate, denticulate; perichaetium axillary. Seta red, erect to near the top, then cygneous, so the small, brown, oval, subsymmetrical capsule is subpendent; the lid is shortly beaked, and the stout, red, and bordered outer teeth shortly connate at the base, closely barred, densely striate, with firm mid-line to far up, and bent inward and pectinate on the inner surface, then erect, slender, and hyaline at the top. Inner peristome and ring not seen. Male flower globose, axillary, with short ovate-acuminate, nearly entire leaves.
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