Plants: 1–3(–5) cm. Stems: dark red or reddish brown when old; micronemata absent. Leaves: green to light green, contorted when dry, broadly obovate or elliptic, (2–)3–5(–7) mm; margins pale green or reddish, 2–4-stratose; apex rounded or sometimes obtuse or truncate, short-mucronate or apiculate; costa percurrent or occasionally subpercurrent; medial laminal cells short-elongate or elongate, (50–)65–100(–120) µm, collenchymatous or not, walls pitted; marginal cells linear or short-linear, in 3 or 4 rows. : Specialized asexual reproduction by green protonematous rhizoids. Sexual: condition dioicous. Seta: 1.5–3.5 cm. Capsule: oblong-cylindric, 2–3.5 mm; operculum conic-rostrate; exostome greenish yellow, lamellae 18+. Spores: 29–41 µm. Phenology: Capsules mature spring.