Plants small, to 12 mm high, dark green or reddish brown, in dense tufts. Stems erect, usually irregularly branched, densely foliate. Leaves contorted-curved to crisped when dry, erecto-patent when moist, ovate-lanceolate or narrowly ligulate, broadly acute, upper lamina sometimes keeled; margins entire, usually plane; costa stout, percurrent or ending below apex; upper leaf cells rounded-hexagonal, thick-walled, green and obscure, each cell with several large, circular papillae on both surfaces; basal cells slightly elongate, irregularly short-rectangular, smooth, hyaline. Autoicous. Setae 5–7 mm long, yellowish; capsules erect, oblong-ellipsoidal; peristome teeth short, linear, undivided, papillose.