Plants medium-sized to large, green, sometimes red tinged, dull. Stems 0.4-2.5 cm. Leaves erect to ± spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 0.7-1.5 mm; margins , serrulate to serrate in distal 1/3; costa subpercurrent; distal medial laminal cells rhombic, 18-50 µm, walls thick, . Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonial leaves broadly short-ovate; perichaetial leaves weakly differentiated, elongate-lanceolate. Seta orange-brown. Capsule inclined 0-20°, brown to stramineous, narrowly pyriform, neck 1/3 urn length; exothecial cells short-rectangular, walls sinuate; stomata superficial; annulus present; operculum bluntly to acutely conic; exostome teeth yellow to brown, narrowly triangular-acute; endostome hyaline, basal membrane scarcely exceeding capsule rim, segments narrow, weakly keeled, distinctly perforate, cilia absent to rudimentary. Spores 14-19 µm, finely roughened.