Plants small to medium-sized, in loose mats, green to yellowish. Stems to 5 cm, leafy shoots 0.3 mm wide, branches filiform. Stem leaves loosely imbricate, erect when moist, ovate-lanceolate, 0.8-1.2 × 0.3-0.4(-0.5) mm; margins serrate to serrulate, occasionally subentire; apex narrowly acute to acuminate, at least some apices long-acute to moderately long-acuminate; alar cells irregularly polygonal, size variable, 6-13 µm, walls moderately thick, region extensive, reaching from margin (50-) 100% distance to costa, indistinctly delimited; laminal cells 30-65 × 4-6 µm; basal juxtacostal cells elongate, 10-30 × 5-10(-13) µm, or similar to alar cells. Seta 1.5 cm, smooth to slightly rough proximally, rough distally. Capsule inclined. Spores 10-14 µm.