Plants small, in lax to dense tufts, yellowish. Stems 0.5-1.5(-3) cm, erect to inclined, simple, tomentose proximally. Leaves erect and straight or curved and homomallous when dry, erect-spreading when moist, triangular-lanceolate, 0.7-1.3 mm; margins plane proximally, narrowly revolute distally, bluntly serrulate nearly to base, teeth usually single proximally, paired distally; apex acuminate; costa percurrent to short-excurrent, distal abaxial surface rough; laminal cells , prorulose at distal ends, ; basal cells quadrate to rectangular, wider than distal, 10-65 × 8-12 µm; distal cells narrowly oblong, 20-50 × 5-8 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction by brood branches in distal leaf axils. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonia gemmiform. Seta 1.3-3 cm, straight. Capsule 1.5-2 mm. Spores subspheric to reniform, 23-26 µm.