Plants small to medium-sized, 1–3 cm high, yellowish green or brownish green, gregarious or in dense tufts. Stems erect, simple or branched, often densely radiculose below, upper stems somewhat julaceous. Leaves erect or erect-patent, imbricately arranged, soft, nearly the same size, 2–3 mm long, lingulate, broadly rounded at apex; margins plane, entire, sometimes slightly incurved; costa ending below leaf apex; upper leaf cells large, quadrate to hexagonal, lax, thin-walled, gradually elongate; lower cells rectangular, thin-walled. Dioicous. Perichaetia and perigonia with paraphyses. Setae 2.5–4.0 cm long, orange-yellow; capsules erect, symmetric, with urns broadly ovoid, apophyses well developed, usually shorter than, but sometimes nearly as long as the urns, narrower and tapered to the setae; opercula long-conic, shortly rostrate; annuli none; peristome teeth 16, inserted below the mouth, minutely papillose. Calyptrae naked, smooth. Spores spherical, 25–45 µm in diameter, smooth.