Leaves ovate-lanceolate or occasionally ovate, apex broadly acute or rounded-acute, piliferous, margins recurved in middle 2/3 of leaf or more, not or weakly bordered distally with ca. 2 rows of less papillose, thicker-walled cells, to ca. 2:1; costa long-excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2-3 cells across the convex adaxial surface; distal laminal cells hexagonal, 13-20 µm wide, 1:1, densely papillose with several 2-fid papillae. Sexual condition autoicous or paroicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 0.4-1.9 cm. Capsule stegocarpic, short-cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.5-2 mm; peristome 300-500 length µm, teeth 16, divided to near the base or perforate basally, the teeth often basally fused into a low basal membrane ca. 50 µm; operculum 0.5-0.6 mm. Spores ca. 23-25 µm, spheric, densely papillose.