Plants small, brownish green to yellowish green, scattered or in small tufts, to 4 mm high. Stems reddish yellow, erect, not branched, rhizoids scattered, sclerodermis and hyalodermis absent, central strand present. Axillary hairs 5–6 cells long, all cells hyaline. Leaves 0.6–2.0 mm long, lingulate, erect-incurved when dry, erect when wet, cucullate, lamina bistratose near costa; margins entire to irregularly crenulate, strongly infolded above; costa percurrent to subpercurrent, coarsely papillose at back above, guide cells and single (dorsal) stereid band well-developed, ventral surface layer differentiated as uniseriate, branched filaments 3–7 cells long, filament cells thin-walled, cylindrical to spherical; upper cells rectangular, elliptic or transversely elongate, 9–26  x 8–13 μm, thick-walled, smooth, basal cells quadrate to rectangular, thin-walled, smooth, 13–60 μm long, hyaline, alar cells not differentiated. Dioicous. Perichaetia and perigonia terminal; perichaetial leaves not differentiated. Setae smooth, 12–15 mm long, red. Capsules cylindrical, erect, 2.5–3.0 mm long, smooth; exothecial cells rectangular, thin-walled; stomata in neck; opercula slightly inclined, conic-rostrate, 1 mm long; annuli persistent, of 2 layers of vesiculose cells; peristome yellow, basal membrane short, teeth erect or once twisted, to 1.0 mm long, spiculose. Spores 8–13 μm, finely papillose. Calyptrae cucullate, smooth, 2.5 mm long.