Plants small, loosely caespitose or in small groups, yellowish green; terricolous. Stems erect, to 5 mm high, usually with a few subperichaetial branches; in section round, central strand large, inner cortical cells in 2-3 rows, large, thin-walled; outer cortical cells in 1-2 rows, smaller, incrassate, reddish, epidermal cells thin-walled. Leaves somewhat crowded, appressed to erect dry, erect wet; narrowly lanceolate, 1.0-1.2(-1.5) mm long; apex acuminate to subulate; margins plane, serrate above base. Costa short-excurrent, serrate; in section rounded, bulging dorsally, guide cells 2, incrassate, ventral cells in single layer, similar to guide cells, incrassate, dorsal stereid band small, of 4-8 cells, dorsal surface cells similar to ventral cells. Laminal cells linear-rectangular, 4-6:1, incrassate, weakly prorate; basal cells slightly wider, 2-4:1, smooth. Dioicous. Perichaetia terminal or lateral through innovation; leaves strongly differentiated, long-linear, 4-5 mm long; margins weakly serrate, teeth distant; costa excurrent; laminal cells linear, mostly smooth. Seta 3-6 mm long, yellowish to reddish yellow; capsule erect, symmetrical, urn globose, warty, to 1 mm long, yellowish to brownish; exothecial cells irregularly arranged, quadrate to rectangular or oblong-hexagonal or occasionally transversely rectangular, warty protuberances on capsule wall multicellular, 4-6 rows of short, transversely rectangular cells at capsule mouth; stomata present at base of urn, phaneropore; peristome absent; operculum plano-convex; only juvenile calyptra seen, cucullate, apparently quickly lost; spores subround, 35-42 µm, densely warty, brownish.
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