Plants medium-sized, 2–4 cm long, yellowish green or green above, brown and blackish brown below, sometimes appearing grayish due to hyaline hair-points, in large, dense cushions. Stems subpinnately branched, with long or short branches; central strand absent. Leaves imbricately appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate, usually secund, somewhat keeled above, with long, flexuous, hyaline and dentate hair-points; margins recurved on one side up to the leaf apex, other side to 3/4 the leaf length, unistratose in cross section; costa strong, percurrent, clearly convex on the dorsal side; leaf cells unistratose, strongly sinuosely thick-walled, sometimes with papillose walls; upper and median cells rectangular, 24–30 µm × 8–10 µm; basal cells linear, 25–50 µm × ca. 9 µm; alar cells not differentiated, with only a row of 10–20 hyaline marginal cells, thin-walled. Perichaetial leaves rounded-ovate, without or with short hyaline hair-points. Setae elongate, erect, 5–8 mm long; capsules oblong-ovoid, 1.5–2.0 mm long; opercula long-rostrate; peristome teeth linear-lanceolate, divided to the base, densely papillose. Calyptrae mitrate. Spores spherical, 12–14 µm in diameter.