Plants medium-sized, yellowish brown to brownish green. Stems 4-8 cm, reddish to yellowish, creeping, often densely branched, regularly to irregularly pinnate, branches 1 cm; hyalodermis absent, , central strand weak; pseudoparaphyllia foliose, triangular to lanceolate, . Stem leaves falcate to circinate, broadly ovate, tapering to apex, 1.4(-2.2) × 0.4(-0.8) mm; base decurrent, not auriculate; margins excavate in alar region, crenate to entire or toothed in acumen; acumen slender; costa double and short or sometimes absent; alar cells , region weakly defined, sometimes with rectangular decurrent cells at insertion; basal laminal cells shorter, thicker than medial cells, not pigmented, walls porose; medial cells 50-70(-80) × 3-5 µm. Sexual condition autoicous; . Seta reddish or yellowish, 3-4 cm. Capsule inclined to horizontal, brown when mature, cylindric, 2-3 × 0.9-1 mm; annulus 3-seriate; operculum conic-apiculate; endostome cilia 2 or 3.