Plants medium-sized, in moderately dense mats, green to brownish. Stems to 10 cm, leafy shoots (0.4-)0.6-0.9 mm wide, branches moderately or sometimes strongly julaceous. Stem leaves closely imbricate, ovate, 0.8-1.6 × 0.3-0.8 mm, ; margins weakly serrulate to subentire proximally, serrulate near apex; apex acute or very short-acuminate; alar cells enlarged, 10-14 µm, walls thin, region small, distinctly delimited; laminal cells 30-65 × 4-6 µm; basal juxtacostal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, 10-20 × 7-10 µm. Seta to 1.2 cm, strongly to moderately rough throughout. Capsule suberect to inclined. Spores 13-16 µm.