Plants to 0.7 cm. Stem leaves loosely erect and not contorted when dry, spreading to ± recurved when moist, oblong-lanceolate, 1-1.7 mm; margins entire; apex broadly acute, apiculus abrupt; costa ending near apex, abaxial surface covered by cells distally; basal laminal cells subquadrate to short-rectangular; distal cells 9-14 µm, papillae 2-4 per cell, walls somewhat thick. Specialized asexual reproduction by cylindric to fusiform gemmae, longitudinal walls absent. Sexual condition dioicous. Sporophytes unknown.