Plants medium-sized, in dense mats, pale green to yellow-green. Stems 2-6 cm, 1.5-2 mm wide across main leafy shoot, markedly complanate-foliate, subpinnate to irregularly branched, strongly falcate-secund toward substrate at stem and branch apices; pseudoparaphyllia narrowly to lanceolate-filamentous. Leaves falcate-secund, ovate, tapering to apex, 1-1.5 mm; margins toothed in acumen; alar cells 3 or 4, yellowish. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta light brown, 1-1.5 cm. Capsule inclined, oblong-cylindric, somewhat asymmetric; operculum short-rostrate.