Plants small to moderately large, green to bronze or darker, often blackish. Stems with branches short or sometimes elongate, ascending, loosely foliate or sometimes julaceous, curved at apices or sometimes straight. Leaves ascending to imbricate, not plicate, 0.8-1.1 mm; margins inconspicuously to strongly recurved proximally; apex acute to acuminate; medial laminal cells 44-57 × 5-6 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction by brood branchlets, many and conspicuous on branch apices. Seta 1.2-2 cm. Capsule subcylindric, symmetric or slightly asymmetric, 1-2.5 mm; operculum slenderly long-rostrate. Calyptra1.5-2 mm. Spores 13-18 µm.