Branch leaves smaller, with similar features.
Perichaetial leaf tips straight, and perichaetia with uniseriate paraphyses. Seta rather short, to 4.5 mm long, smooth, reddish, straight when wet, twisted when dry. Calyptra cucullate, hairy. Epiphytic, or occasionally on rock. As a result, embryonic sporophytes from the present year are found along the same stem with maturing sporophytes initiated in the previous year.