Plants medium-sized, forming large turfs, green to yellow-green; corticolous or saxicolous. Primary stems creeping; secondary stem erect, 20-70 mm long, branching irregular, distichous above stipe, pinnate; in section oval, central strand absent, inner cortical cells large, hyaline, thin-walled, in 3-5 rows, outer cortical cells smaller, brownish, thick-walled, in 4-6 rows; axillary hairs not seen; paraphyllia absent; pseudoparaphyllia filamentous. Leaves crowded, erect-spreading wet, appressed dry, somewhat crisped, concave; stem leaves ovate, elliptical or oblong-ovate, 2.6-3.2 mm long; acute; cordate to subauriculate at base; margins plane, entire; branch leaves similar but smaller. Costa single, slender, ending below apex, smooth; in section bulging dorsally, 2 cells thick. Upper laminal cells fusiform, homogeneous, 50-75 µm long, 6-8 µm wide, walls thickened and pitted, smooth; basal cells rectangular, much shorter and brownish at insertion, walls incrassate and pitted; alar cells not differentiated. Gemmae in leaf axils, few, filiform, of 4-8 cells, to 62 µm long, greenish, smooth. Dioicous. Perigonia gemmate. Perichaetia green. Sporophyte not seen but described as: Seta very short. Capsule immersed, ovoid. Peristome single, yellowish, teeth irregular. Operculum conic-rostrate. Calyptra cucullate. Spores rounded, variable, 18-40 µm, papillose.
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