Plants in dense mats, yellowish. Stems 3 cm, 1.5-3 mm wide, creeping to ascending; pseudoparaphyllia foliose. Leaves imbricate to somewhat spreading, often somewhat falcate when dry, not plicate, 1.5-3 × 0.4-0.6 mm; base distinctly short-decurrent; margins serrulate to entire; alar cells rounded to oblong, abruptly inflated, 14-70 × 14-28 µm, hyaline; basal laminal cell walls pitted, sometimes to mid leaf; medial cells 33-85 × 4-7 µm. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta yellowish, 1.1-1.5 cm. Capsule inclined, light brown, cylindric, slightly curved, 2.5-3 × 0.3-0.5 mm, not or little contracted below mouth when dry; operculum conic to conic-apiculate, 0.3-0.4 mm. Spores 17-22 µm.