Plants medium-sized, dark green, scattered or in small groups; corticolous. Stems 5-12 mm high; in section round, central strand absent, inner cortical cells in 6-8 rows, large, yellowish, outer cortical cells in 1-3 rows, stereids to substereids, reddish. Leaves inrolled or curved dry, spreading wet; linear above obovate base, 4.5-5.0 mm long; apex acute or rounded in gemmiferous leaves; margins thickened above shoulders, irregularly dentate with intermittent groups of larger teeth, spinose at shoulders. Costa percurrent; in section subround, guide cells 4, large, ventral stereid band 2-3 cells thick, ventral surface cells large, incrassate, sharply mammillose, dorsal stereid band 4-5 cells thick, dorsal surface cells incrassate, sharply mammillose. Upper laminal cells quadrate to hexagonal, extending down leaf between cancellinae and border, sharply papillose or papillae sometimes bifid; cancellinae quadrate above, rectangular below; basal marginal cells in 3-4 rows, linear, smooth. Sporophyte not known.
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