Plants 4-8(-12) cm. Stems dark reddish brown or brown when old; micronemata present. Leaves green or dark green, slightly or moderately contorted, broadly elliptic, obovate, or rarely orbicular, 6.5-10(-13) mm; margins reddish, brown, rarely green, or blackish with age, 2-stratose; apex rounded or sometimes retuse, bluntly apiculate; costa percurrent, rarely subpercurrent or ending well before apex; medial laminal cells elongate or short-elongate, (50-)100-180(-210) µm, not or weakly collenchymatous, walls rarely weakly pitted; marginal cells linear, in 2-3(-4) rows. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 1.5-3.5 cm. Capsule oblong or cylindric, 2-3 mm; operculum conic-rostrate; exostome yellow-brown, lamellae 18+. Spores 29-41 µm.