Asexual propagules absent. Loose tuft on trees and occasionally rocks, bright green to olive-green, 5–20 mm tall. Stem red to red-brown, tomentose with brown rhizoids. Leaves erect-spreading when moist, slightly flexuose when dry, ovate-lanceolate, 2–4.8 mm long, 0.5–0.9 mm wide, carinate; apex long-acuminate; costa strong, ending below apex; margin entire, recurved, without a border; laminal cells in in apical half round and isodiametric to rectangular, 8–28 μm long, 6.5–28 μm wide, papillose, unistratose; basal laminal cells rectangular to rhomboidal, 45–87 μm long, 8–14 μm wide, each with 2 or 3 branched papillae, unistratose. Seta 0.8–6.5 mm long, yellow or orange, smooth, twisted anticlockwise. Calyptra plicate, with few hairs or glabrous. Capsules emergent or short-exserted, cylindric or urceolate, 1.2–2 mm long, yellow, deeply 8-ribbed. Peristome double; exostome teeth 8, recurved; endostome segments 8, incurved. Operculum mammilate, 0.15–0.2 mm long.
