Plants to 12 cm, soft. Stems 1-3 mm wide across leafy stem, irregularly branched to loosely 1-pinnate, not frondose or bushy, branches turgid, innovations inconspicuous. Stem leaves erect to erect-spreading, loosely imbricate, becoming more tightly imbricate toward stem apices, ovate to elliptic-ovate, somewhat concave, 1.5-2.5 × 1-1.4 mm; margins serrulate to nearly entire proximally, serrate distally; apex abruptly narrowed; costa single; medial laminal cells 30-60 × 5-7 µm. Branch leaves imbricate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.3-2 × 0.4-0.9 mm; costa single. Seta 1-3 cm. Capsule ovoid, 1.3-1.8 mm.