Plants (1-)2-5 cm. Stems dark red or reddish brown when old; micronemata absent. Leaves green to dark green, weakly contorted when dry, broadly obovate, elliptic, or often ± orbicular, (3.8-)4-6(-9) mm; margins green or sometimes pale reddish, 1-4-stratose; apex rounded, occasionally retuse, rarely short-apiculate; costa ending well before apex to 7/8 leaf length or rarely subpercurrent; medial laminal cells elongate or short-elongate, (60-)70-130(-170) µm, rarely collenchymatous, walls with broad central pits; marginal cells linear or short-linear, in (1-)2(-3) rows. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta 1-2.5 cm. Capsule ovate, 2.5-3.5 mm; operculum conic-apiculate; exostome yellow, lamellae 18+. Spores 25-35 µm.