Plants 0.5–3 cm long, in tufts, dirty green, olive green, or yellowish green, darker below, equally foliate, the fertile ones comose. Leaves 4–7 mm, erect spreading or loosely appressed, lanceolate, ending in a straight, more or less long serrate hairpoint; alar cells not differentiated or strongly developed, inflated, thin-walled, hyaline or reddish; basal laminal cells hyaline, thin-walled, rectangular, forming a V-shaped area; distal laminal cells oval to rhomboidal, ca. 2:1; costa filling 1/2–3/4 of leaf width, excurrent in a hairpoint, in transverse section showing adaxial hyalocysts and abaxial groups of stereids, abaxially with lamellae 3–4 cells high. Specialized asexual reproduction occasionally by deciduous stem tips. Seta often aggregated, about 5 mm, sinuose. Capsule 1.5 mm, slightly asymmetric, furrowed when dry, brownish; operculum rostrate. Calyptra fringed at base. Spores ca. 13 µm.
