Plants in dense, whitish-green tufts up to 5 cm high, equally foliate. Leaves 5-8 mm long, narrowed from a broad, triangular base to a slightly channeled apex of varying length, denticulate at the tip; costa about 4/5 the width of the leaf base, narrowed to the base, excurrent, in section showing large ventral leucocysts, median chlorocysts, and both leucocysts and chlorocysts dorsally, ridged at back above; alar cells not differentiated, basal cells rectangular, hyaline and thin-walled, those at the margins narrow and elongate in 5-7 rows, the upper cells (vanishing near the midleaf) short-rectangular, 4-7 ´ 16-19 µm. Sporophytes very rare. Setae 8-15 mm long, erect, curved or twisted, pale-brown, becoming darker with age; capsules 1-2 mm long, symmetric, cylindric, furrowed, yellow-brown; operculum long-rostrate, 1 mm long. Calyptrae fringed at base.