Plants vivid green to yellowish brown. Stems to 15 cm, (2 or) 3-pinnate, frondose; paraphyllia papillose near mid cell. Stem leaves loosely erect when dry, erect-spreading when moist, broadly ovate, plicate, 1.5-2 mm; margins revolute to base of acumen, denticulate distally; apex gradually to abruptly acuminate; costa ending near apex; distal laminal cells rounded to elliptic, 13-20 × 8-10 µm. Branch leaves with apical cell acute, smooth. Primary branch leaves 0.8 mm; costa ending before apex. Secondary branch leaves to 0.4 mm; apex acute; costa ending mid leaf. Perichaetial leaves 3 mm, margins long-ciliate proximally, serrate distally. Seta 2.5-4.5 cm. Capsule 3-4 mm; operculum 1.8 mm, obliquely long-rostrate; endostome cilia in groups of 3 or 4. Spores 12µm, smooth or very finely papillose.