Plants in a loose turf, green above, brownish green below. Stems seldom branching, to 1.5 cm in length, transverse section round, central strand present, distinct, sclerodermis and hyalodermis absent; axillary hairs of clear cells, several cells in length; weakly rhizoidiferous. Leaves contorted, appressed when dry, widely spreading and somewhat rosulate when moist, spathulate, 2.5–4.0 µm in length, upper lamina flat, very weakly channeled along the costa, margins weakly recurved below midleaf, entire, with a narrow cartilaginous border of stereid cells to 4 cells in thickness and ending at or just before apex; apex rounded or emarginate, often bluntly apiculate; base little differentiated in shape; costa thin, percurrent or ending up to 4 cells below apex, costa with lamina inserted laterally, superficial cells ventrally long-rectangular, dorsally narrowly elongate, 2 rows of cells across costa ventrally at midleaf, costal transverse section round, stereid band weak and rounded in shape, ventral and dorsal epidermis present, the latter only laterally, guide cells 2 in 1 layer, hydroid strand present, small; upper laminal cells hexagonal to short-rectangular, large, ca. 22–28 µm in width, 1–2:1, walls thin, often weakly trigonous, superficially weakly convex on both sides; papillae absent; basal cells scarcely differentiated, short-rectangular, ca. 30 µm in width, 2–3:1, walls thin. Dioicous. Perichaetia terminal, inner leaves slightly larger than the cauline. Perigonia not seen. Seta 1.0–1.3 cm in length, 1 per perichaetium, red-brown, twisted clockwise; theca ca. 1.7–2.0 µm in length, red- or yellow-brown, cylindrical, exothecial cells thin-walled, hexagonal to short-rectangular, 25–35 µm in width, stomates at base of theca, phaneropore, annulus of 3–4 rows of vesiculose cells, persistent; peristome teeth ca. 32, filamentous, anastomosing at base, densely spiculose, ca. 1000 µm in length, with many articulations, weakly twisted counterclockwise, basal membrane ca. 70 µm in height, densely spiculose-papillose. Operculum not seen (blunt-conic ex descr.). Calyptra not seen. Spores 10–13 µm in diameter, yellowish, weakly papillose. Laminal KOH color reaction red.