Plants small, caespitose, yellow-green above, brown to reddish brown below; terricolous. Stems up to 18 mm tall, branching by subperichaetial innovations, tomentose below; rhizoids red-brown to brown, smooth; in section round, with inner cortex 4-8 cells across, incrassate, outer cortical cells smaller, in 1-3 rows, incrassate, outer surface rough. Leaves crowded, larger above, crisped when dry, erect-spreading when wet; linear-lanceolate above an oval or ovate base, (1.3-)1.5-3.0(-3.7) mm long; ventral surface keeled; apex acute to acuminate; base sheathing; margins plane, occasionally narrowly recurved in midleaf on one side, entire. Costa ending below apex; ventral superficial cells rectangular to linear; dorsal superficial cells oval above, narrowly rectangular to linear below; in section subround to crescent-shaped, bulging dorsally, ventrally flat, laminal insertion ventral, cells not differentiated, incrassate to stereids. Upper laminal cells irregularly rounded, incrassate, ± flat, smooth to weakly papillose, 10.5-16.0(-20.0) µm, papillae low, simple, blunt; basal cells rectangular or rhomboidal to vermicular, incrassate, smooth, occasionally pitted, border distinct, cells in 4-12 rows, short-rectangular to quadrate, transverse walls incrassate, longitudinal walls thin. Autoicous. Perigonia terminal on short branches, inner leaves ovate. Perichaetia terminal, leaves weakly differentiated. Seta 2.0-2.5 mm long, brownish, twisted anticlockwise above. Capsule shortly exserted, oval, contracted below mouth when dry, ribbed, brownish, urn 1.0-1.2 mm long; neck gradually narrowed to seta, ± 0.5 mm long; exothecial cells irregularly rectangular or quadrate, smaller at mouth, irregularly rounded or oval, incrassate; stomata present in lower half of urn; annulus absent. Peristome reflexed when dry; exostome teeth 16, in 8 pairs, fused below, perforated above, lanceolate, 270-300 µm, yellowish brown, minutely papillose to striolate-papillose; endostome segments fragile, alternating with teeth pairs, linear, hyaline or yellowish, essentially smooth, basal membrane absent. Operculum 0.5 mm long. Calyptra 2.0-2.4 mm long, lobed below, hairs ascending, multiseriate, denticulate. Spores 23-35 µm.
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