Plants in thin mats, yellow-green. Stems to 8 cm, subpinnate, branches complanate-foliate. Leaves erect to erect-spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm (branch leaves 1.5-2.3 mm); margins plane, entire proximally, weakly serrulate distally; apex broadly, abruptly acuminate; costa double, short; alar region ± abruptly differentiated, 1-stratose, not reaching costa. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta reddish, 0.7-1.4 cm. Capsule cylindric, 2-3 mm; annulus not differentiated; operculum long-conic; exostome teeth reddish, external surface cross striolate proximally, obliquely striolate distally, papillose apically, rarely perforate; endostome segments smooth to slightly roughened. Spores 13-20 µm.