Plants in dense, pale- or yellow-green mats up to 2.5 cm high, equally foliate, often reddish-tomentose below, rarely bearing small, axillary branches with small, appressed leaves. Leaves loosely erect, about 4 mm long, gradually narrowed from an ovate base to an acumen of varying length, denticulate at the extreme apex; costa 3/4-4/5 the leaf base, not narrowed at base, excurrent, in section showing 4 layers of cells, with large ventral leucocysts, median chlorocysts, and both leucocysts and chlorocysts dorsally, gradually merging with the lamina and slightly ribbed at back; alar cells conspicuously inflated, reddish or hyaline, occupying much of the costal area at base, sometimes auriculate; basal cells rectangular, hyaline, and thin-walled in 7-8 rows, those at the margins narrower; upper cells small, irregularly rectangular, 8-12 ´ 2-4 µm long, vanishing near the midleaf. Setae 15 mm long, pale-brown, curved or twisted; capsules 2 mm long, cylindric, pale-brown; operculum long-rostrate; peristome teeth divided in the upper 1/3, orange-brown, hyaline at the tips, striate. Spores 11-13 µm, coarsely papillose.