Plants (1-)2-3 cm. Stems reddish brown, brown, or black when old; micronemata absent. Leaves green to dark green, slightly contorted and somewhat undulate when dry, obovate or elliptic, (2.5-)4.5-6 mm; margins green or sometimes reddish or brownish, 2-4-stratose; apex rounded or occasionally obtuse or retuse, short-apiculate; costa subpercurrent or percurrent; medial laminal cells short-elongate, sometimes elongate or ± isodiametric, (35-)45-60(-70) µm, weakly or not collenchymatous, walls pitted; marginal cells linear, in 3-4(-5) rows. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta (2-)3-5 cm. Capsule oblong or cylindric, 3-4.5 mm; operculum conic-apiculate or conic-rostrate; exostome greenish yellow, lamellae 18+. Spores 30-45 µm.