Plants in thin to dense mats, dark green to yellowish, dull or glossy. Stems to 5 cm, 1-4 mm wide across leafy stem, prostrate or rarely erect, complanate-foliate or sometimes julaceous. Leaves somewhat spreading, rarely secund with apices pointing toward substratum, imbricate, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, asymmetric, flat to concave, 1.5-4 × 0.5-2 mm; margins broadly recurved nearly to apex or sometimes plane, serrulate at extreme apex or rarely entire; apex acute to acuminate or rarely narrowly obtuse, not abruptly contracted, ; costa with one branch sometimes reaching mid leaf or rarely ecostate; alar cells spheric, oval, quadrate, or rectangular, 19-80 × 19-29 µm, in 3-8 vertical rows, terminating in several spheric or oval cells at base, region often auriculate and oval, sometimes cells quadrate and rectangular, terminating in 1 cell at base, region triangular; medial laminal cells 70-180 × 12-21µm. Specialized asexual reproduction often present as propagula, 72-178 × 9-24 µm, of 3-7 cells borne in leaf axils. Sexual condition autoicous or sometimes dioicous, usually fruiting. Seta light brown to red, 1.5-3.5 cm, curved. Capsule cernuous or rarely erect or inclined, light brown to orange-brown when mature, arcuate, rarely straight when erect or inclined, 1.5-3.5 × 0.5-1 mm, striate or sometimes wrinkled, rarely smooth, strongly wrinkled at neck; operculum short-rostrate, 0.7-1 mm; endostome cilia 2 or 3. Spores 9-13 µm.
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