Plants in soft, loose mats. Stems creeping; central strand cells small, walls thin; paraphyllia narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; axillary hair basal cell 1, elongate, rectangular to long-rectangular, brown, distal cells elongate. Stem leaves 0.8-1.6 mm wide; alar cells few; medial laminal cells 30-60 × 5-9 µm, 4-8:1. Perichaetial leaves lanceolate. Seta elongate, 2-4.5 cm. Capsule 1.5-2 mm, constricted below mouth when dry; annulus separating, 2-or 3-seriate; operculum conic; exostome yellow-brown, external surface cross striolate basally, papillose distally, internal surface trabeculate. Spores finely roughened.