Plants to 15 cm, soft. Stems 3-5 mm wide across leafy stem, remotely and irregularly branched to subpinnate, branches to 4 cm. Stem leaves erect-spreading, often falcate-secund or recurved distally, not crowded, ovate-lanceolate, plicate, not rugose, 3.2-4.2 × 0.9-1.4 mm; base loosely sheathing, not rounded to insertion; apex abruptly narrowed, acumen long, slender, channeled; costa less than 1/4 leaf length; alar cells not differentiated; medial laminal cells 40-80 × 5-7 µm, smooth. Branch leaves narrowly lanceolate, 1.7-3.6 × 0.4-1 mm. Capsule ovoid, 1.3-2.5 mm.