Plants small, yellowish, golden green, dark green, or brownish. Stems 2-5 cm, yellowish to golden green, usually creeping, regularly to irregularly pinnate, branches 0.2-0.4(-6) cm; hyalodermis absent, central strand weakly developed; pseudoparaphyllia lanceolate. Stem leaves falcate-secund, rarely straight, ovate-to oblong-lanceolate, narrowed to apex, 0.6-1.1 × 0.4-0.6 mm; base not or weakly decurrent, not auriculate; margins usually broadly or narrowly recurved proximally, sometimes to apex, serrulate to nearly entire proximally, serrate distally; acumen short, slender to relatively wide; costa double, rarely single, faint to distinct; alar cells (subquadrate or transversely rectangular, subopaque), region not well defined, , 8-15(-20) cells in marginal row; basal laminal cells broader than medial cells, often yellowish, walls pitted; medial cells 30-50 × 4-5 µm, . Branch leaves with margins frequently strongly serrate; apex more gradually acuminate. Sexual condition autoicous; . Seta yellowish brown to red, 0.7-1.5 cm. Capsule inclined to horizontal, rarely suberect, yellowish to dark brown, oblong to subcylindric, 1-2.3 mm; annulus 1-or 2-seriate; operculum conic; endostome cilia 2 or 3.