Plants small, 0.7–1.0 cm high, yellowish green or brown, in loose tufts. Stems erect, simple or sparsely branched. Leaves appressed when dry, erect-patent when moist, lanceolate, 2.0–2.3 mm long, gradually narrowed from an ovate base to a slender acumen; margins reflexed or revolute below, plane above, entire throughout; costa stout, shortly excurrent; cells rectangular, thin-walled, 10–20 µm × 3–5 µm at the shoulder, 13–26 µm × 5–10 µm at the margins, the upper ones shorter. Dioicous. Setae straight, 5.0–7.0 mm long, yellowish brown, sometimes twisted above; capsules erect, oblong-ovoid, symmetric, ca. 2 mm long, smooth when dry; opercula short conic-rostrate; annuli in 2 rows of large and thick-walled cells; peristome teeth linear, ca. 200 µm long, divided nearly to the base, papillose, whitish yellow above, yellowish brown below. Spores 16–18 µm in diameter, yellowish brown, irregularly papillose.