Plants very small, in tufts, brownish proximally, golden green distally. Stems 3-4 cm, 0.5 mm wide, erect to ascending, sparsely branched. Leaves closely appressed-imbricate, straight, broadly ovate, not or slightly plicate, 0.6-0.8 mm; margins plane, slightly serrate distally; apex abruptly very short-acuminate to apiculate; ecostate; basal laminal cells shorter than medial cells, deeply pigmented; medial cells oblong to oblong-rhombic, 35-40 × 9 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sporophytes unknown.