Stems 1-5 cm, unbranched or rarely with slender subapical innovations. Stem leaves 18-55 in rosettes, usually more than 20, 4-10 mm; margins strongly revolute to beyond mid leaf, often nearly to apex; apex broadly acute to cuspidate; costa in rosette leaves percurrent to short-excurrent, hair-point slender, in cross section stereid band distinct, reaching dorsal epidermal layer, without intervening layer of thin-walled cells. Perichaetial inner leaves with costa long-excurrent, hair-point denticulate. Spores 16-24 µm.