Leaves broadly ovate-lanceolate, apex broadly acute or occasionally rounded, not or weakly apiculate, margins plane, always distinctly bordered nearly throughout with 2-4 rows of narrower, thicker-walled, smooth or weakly papillose cells; costa percurrent or ending in an apiculus, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally of even thickness, 4(-6) cells across adaxial surface; distal laminal cells hexagonal or sometimes subquadrate, width 11-15 µm, 1:1; hollow-papillose medially. Sexual condition dioicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 0.5-0.8(-1) cm. Capsule stegocarpic, not systylius, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.1-1.5(-1.8) mm; peristome 200-350 µm, weakly twisted, teeth of 32 rather short filaments variously anastomosing proximally, basal membrane 60-100 µm; operculum 0.4-0.8 mm. Spores 8-10 µm, spheric, finely papillose or nearly smooth.