Plants medium-sized to large, golden to yellow-green or brownish. Stems 3-10 cm, reddish brown, creeping, regularly pinnate, occasionally partly 2-pinnate or irregularly branched, branches 0.3-1.2 cm; hyalodermis absent, central strand weak; pseudoparaphyllia lanceolate or foliose, . Stem leaves falcate-secund, triangular-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to apex, 1.8-2 × 0.6-0.8 mm; base somewhat decurrent, not auriculate; margins plane or weakly recurved basally, serrulate distally or rarely nearly entire; acumen slender; costa double, short, or indistinct; alar cells , region weakly defined, , 5-10 cells high on margin; basal laminal cells broader than medial cells, yellow-orange to orange-brown, walls pitted; medial cells 50-70(-80) × 3-4(-5) µm, . Sexual condition dioicous; . Seta red-brown, 1-3 cm. Capsule erect to slightly inclined, red-brown, cylindric, 1.5-3 mm; annulus scarcely differentiated; operculum conic to rostellate; endostome cilia 1, sometimes 2 or rudimentary.