Plants (0.5-)2(-4.3) cm, . Stem leaves stiff, erect-appressed, slightly secund when dry, oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 2-4.3 mm; margins revolute from base to near apex, entire; apex obtuse, bluntly or narrowly acute, or gradually acuminate; basal laminal cells rectangular to elongate, grading to elliptic-quadrate, walls thick, nodose; distal cells 8-12 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1-3 per cell, conic or 2-fid, lo w. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 1.5-4 mm. Capsule fully exserted, cylindric, 1.4-2.6 mm, smooth or sometimes slightly plicate distally; ; stomata superficial; peristome double; prostome absent or rudimentary; exostome teeth 16, erect, papillose; endostome segments 8, occasionally rudimentary, , of 1 row of cells, smooth. Calyptra conic-oblong, smooth, sparsely hairy, hairs finely papillose. Spores 10-15 µm.