Plants small, yellow-green, somewhat glossy. Stems 1-10 cm, complanate-foliate, irregularly to regularly pinnate. Leaves spreading to appressed, narrowly to broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate; margins entire or weakly to sharply toothed; apex short-acuminate; ecostate or costa double; alar cells rounded-rhomboid, enlarged or weakly inflated, pigmented, walls thin, without proximal row of inflated, elongate cells, middle lamella not apparent, supra-alar cells differentiated; laminal cells rhomboid to linear, 1-seriate multipapillose. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta 1.5 cm. Capsule inclined to horizontal, ovoid; exothecial cell walls not or weakly collenchymatous; operculum conic, short-or long-rostrate.