Plants small, forming thin to dense course mats, dull olive-green, yellowish, or golden to reddish-brown. Stems creeping, pinnately branched; pseudoparaphyllia foliose; paraphyllia rather abundant on stems, few to absent on branches, simple or weakly branched, papillose; rhizoids beneath, also produced on terminal branch tips; central strand weak. Leaves erect when dry, spreading when wet, stem and branch leaves dimorphic, stem leaves short to long ovate-lanceolate, 0.7-0.9 mm long, to 0.5 mm wide, plicate, apex usually abruptly long acuminate, base weakly decurrent; margins reflexed, crenulate; costae single, strong, percurrent to short excurrent; laminal cells similar throughout, oval to quadrate-rounded, 6-8 µm in diameter, pluripapillose, papillae several over cell lumen; branch leaves ovate, apex acute to bluntly short acuminate. Gemmae absent. Autoicous. Perichaetia lateral; leaves glossy pale yellow, setaceous from an ovate base, to 2.3 mm long. Seta elongate, to 10 mm or more long, slightly twisted, smooth. Capsule inclined, urn ovoid-short cylindrical, ca. 1.5 mm long; annuli present; opercula rostrate, oblique; peristome double, exostome teeth 16, finely cross-striate below, distally papillose; endostome basal membrane high, segments 16, cilia 1-2. Calyptra cucullate, smooth and naked. Spores spherical, lightly papillose.