Plants gregarious to densely caespitose, dark green to brownish when dry, mostly 1-2 cm. Leaves monomorphic, mostly 3-5 mm, often secund to circinate at stem tips when dry; distal lamina not reflexed at shoulders, plane or channeled when wet, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, apex broadly acute; margins absent hyaline cells, thickened and with two rows of teeth distally; medial cells distinct, 7.5-8.5 µm, bulging adaxially, plane to minutely 1-papillose abaxially; cancellinae rounded distally. Gemmae fusiform, papillose, sparse, terminal and subterminal on adaxial apex of leaf. Seta single, 7-12 mm. Capsule well exserted, 1.5-2.5 mm; peristome absent or rudimentary.