Acrocarpic moss to 3 mm tall and 2 mm wide, the stems not or sparingly branched; central strand absent; leaves distichous, equitant, consisting of 2 laminae that clasp the stem, arranged on edge to the stem and split at the base, to 1.5 mm long and 0.25 mm wide, as many as 8 pairs on the stem, not crisped upon drying; vaginant laminae 1/2 to 2/3 the leaf length; margins crenulate, elimbate; costae ending 3-5 cells before leaf apex; cells of the laminae 1-stratose, mammillose, irregularly quadrate to hexagonal, oblate on the margins, 8-10 ?m long/wide; sporophytes 1 per perichaetium; setae 1.4-1.8 mm long; capsules erect, symmetrical, to 0.5 mm long; peristome single, the teeth 16, undivided, papillose; operculum to 0.3 mm wide; calyptra cucullate, smooth, about 0.3 mm wide; spores 8-11 ?m.