Plants small, yellowish to light green, blackish brown proximally. Stems 2-5 cm, light yellow to yellowish brown, creeping, irregularly to regularly 1-2(-3)-pinnate, densely to loosely (sometimes fastigiately) branched, branches 0.2-0.5(-0.8) cm; hyalodermis absent, central strand weak; pseudoparaphyllia narrowly lanceolate to filamentous, rarely branched. Stem leaves strongly falcate-secund to circinate, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to apex, 0.7-1.3 × 0.3-0.4 mm; base somewhat decurrent, subcordate, not auriculate; margins recurved basally to 2/3 leaf length or longer, occasionally plane, almost entire to finely serrulate; acumen fine; costa indistinct, weak, or ecostate; alar cells , region not well defined, 4-10 cells in marginal row; basal laminal cells broader than medial cells, yellowish, walls ± porose; medial cells 30-50+ × 3 µm. Branch leaves similar, 0.5-1 mm. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta reddish when mature, 0.7-1.5(-1.8) cm. Capsule suberect to horizontal, yellowish to reddish when mature, oblong to subcylindric, 1-2 × 0.4-0.8 mm; annulus 2-seriate; operculum conic; endostome cilia (1-)2-3.