Plants in loose, yellow-green tufts up to 2.5 cm high, reddish-tomentose below, equally foliate. Leaves appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, 4-6 mm long, narrowed to a long acumen from an ovate-lanceolate base, entire except at the extreme apex; costa 1/2 the leaf base, not ribbed at back, excurrent, in section showing large ventral leucocysts (occupying half the height of the section) and dorsal groups of 2-4 small stereids; alar cells conspicuously differentiated, hyaline or red-brown, mostly hyaline at the margins and brownish within, generally protruding into the costal area; basal cells rectangular, hyaline, thin-walled, 35-55 x 15-20 µm, those at the margins slightly narrower (but not forming a distinct border); upper cells subquadrate to short-rectangular, 15-18 x 10-15 µm, smaller at the margins, vanishing near the leaf middle. Sporophytes unknown.