Plants long and slender, forming dense pendent masses, light green to yellow-brown or dark green; saxicolous or corticolous. Primary stems creeping; secondary stems erect to pendent, 20-150 mm long, branches few, occasionally erect and dendroid in new secondary growth; in section round, central strand absent, inner cortical cells in 5 rows hyaline, thick-walled, outer cortical cells in 4 or 5 rows smaller, thick-walled, yellow-brown. Leaves crowded, erect-spreading wet, spreading dry; stem leaves obovate-cuspidate, 1.5-2.0 mm long; margins erect, entire; branch leaves generally panduriform; obovate to oblong, 0.8-1.5 mm long; acute; cuspidate or sometimes mucronate; ± auriculate or rounded at base; margins plane below, becoming erect to incurved above, entire. Costa short and double or absent, ventral and dorsal surfaces smooth; in section consisting of 3 or 4 undifferentiated cells. Upper laminal cells oblong-fusiform; 35-50 µm long, walls weakly thickened, smooth; basal cells similar to somewhat longer juxtacostally; alar cells few quadrate, walls weakly thickened. Dioicous. Perigonia on branches, gemmate. Perichaetia along branches; perichaetial leaves long-sheathing, 2.0-2.6 mm long, leaf cells linear. Seta 2-3 mm long, yellow-brown; vaginula 2 mm long, beset with hairs that reach base of urn. Capsule exserted, erect, ovoid, 1-2 mm long, smooth, brown, neck weakly differentiated; exothecial cells subquadrate to subhexagonal, walls weakly thickened, cells at mouth brownish; stomata few, phaneropore. Peristome double, yellow; exostome teeth fragile, triangular, papillose, 0.4 mm high; endostome segments linear above very low basal membrane, perforated, almost as long as teeth, smooth; cilia rudimentary. Operculum conic-rostrate, to 1.5 mm long. Calyptra not seen. Spores rounded, 20-25 µm, papillose, green.
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