Plants green to yellow-green, older stems golden. Stems weakly appressed to substrate, branches curved to erect. Stem leaves not catenulate when dry, not homomallous, ovate, gradually or abruptly narrowed to apex, concave, strongly and distinctly 2-plicate, 0.6-1.5(-2) mm, 3:1; base flaring, cordate; margins recurved to mid leaf or beyond on one or both sides, distinctly serrulate distally; apex short-acuminate to acuminate, often falcate; costa single, strong, reaching mid leaf to percurrent; medial laminal cells 2(-3):1, walls firm, not incrassate. Branch leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.4-0.8 mm; laminal cell walls thick. Stoloniferous leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular. Seta red-brown, 0.1-0.2 cm. Capsule inclined, subcylindric, asymmetric, 1-2 mm. Spores 10-16 µm.