Plants dark green to yellow-green, glossy or sometimes dull. Stems 2-6(-8) cm, 0.5-4 mm wide across leafy stem. Leaves 0.7-4 × (0.2-)0.4-2 mm; alar cells spheric, oval, quadrate, or rectangular, in 1-8 vertical rows, region triangular, or auriculate and oval; basal laminal cells shorter, broader than medial; medial cells 36-180 × 3-21 µm; apical cells often shorter. Specialized asexual reproduction by 2-7-celled propagula borne on branched stalks in leaf axils or in clusters without stalks on abaxial leaf surface. Seta yellow or orange to red-brown. Capsule yellowish, orange-brown, reddish, light brown, or dark red when mature, oblong to ovoid, smooth to striate, often wrinkled at neck, often contracted below mouth when dry; annulus differentiated; endostome cilia 1-3, usually as long as segments or nearly so, nodulose, rarely rudimentary or absent.
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