Plants small, reclining, pale yellow-green. Stems 0.5-5 cm, to 1 mm wide across main leafy shoot, somewhat complanate-foliate, little or irregularly branched, branches sometimes flagelliform; pseudoparaphyllia narrowly lanceolate. Leaves slightly secund to falcate, occasionally almost erect, ovate-lanceolate, tapering to apex, 0.8-1.2 cm; margins toothed in acumen; alar cells 2 or 3, red-brown. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta red-brown, 0.5-1 cm. Capsule suberect, cylindric, symmetric to somewhat asymmetric; operculum rostrate.