Plants medium-sized to large, forming mats, green to yellow-green; corticolous or saxicolous. Stems flattened, 40-60 mm long, branching irregular, ± scattered; in section oval, central strand absent, inner cortical cells thin-walled, hyaline, in 6-8 rows, outer cortical cells thick-walled, yellow-brown, in 3 or 4 rows. Leaves evenly spaced, complanate, weakly crisped at apex, undulate, somewhat falcate; oblong-ovate, 2-3 mm long; acute; rounded at base; margins plane, entire to serrulate above. Costa short and double, smooth. Upper laminal cells linear-fusiform, homogeneous, 40-75 µm long, 3-6 µm wide, walls thin, smooth; basal cells not strongly differentiated, greenish, walls thickened, smooth; alar cells in small groups, quadrate, yellowish, walls thickened. Perigonia gemmate; perigonial leaves ovate-acuminate, 1.0-1.5 mm long. Perichaetia strongly differentiated; perichaetial leaves elliptical-acuminate, spreading at tips, to 4 mm long, leaf cells linear, thin-walled. Seta 0.5-1.0 mm long, yellow-brown, smooth. Capsule exserted, erect, short-cylindrical, 1.5 mm long, smooth, yellow-brown; exothecial cells ± irregular, quadrate to rectangular, walls weakly thickened; cells at mouth smaller, quadrate, thickened; stomata phaneropore, on lower urn. Peristome double and incomplete, yellow; exostome teeth linear, reflexed wet, inflexed dry, with median zigzag line, smooth above, weakly striate at base, 500 µm high; endostome segments linear above very low basal membrane, as long as teeth, smooth; cilia absent. Operculum obliquely rostrate. Calyptra cucullate, smooth. Spores rounded, 18-25 µm, granulate, green.
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