Plants 8-20 cm. Stem leaves erect, crisped-flexuose when dry, linear-lanceolate, 2-3.2 mm; margins recurved to near apex, sometimes reflexed beyond, entire; apex acuminate (sometimes bluntly so) or acute; basal laminal cells linear-elongate to long-rectangular, walls thick, not nodose; distal cells 7-11 µm, 1-stratose, smooth or papillae 1 or 2 per cell, blunt, lo w. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta (1.5-)2.5-6 mm. Capsule exserted to long-exserted, ovate-oblong when young, elliptic-cylindric when old, 2.5-6 mm, 8-ribbed entire length; stomata immersed, ; peristome double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 8, erect when mature, reflexed when old, external surface very finely and densely papillose, internal surface finely striate; endostome segments usually 16, rarely 8 (sometimes 8 long, 8 short), not well developed, of 1 row of cells, smooth or finely roughened. Calyptra oblong-conic to short-conic, smooth, naked or rarely sparsely hairy, hairs not papillose. Spores 12-14 µm.
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