Asexual reproduction occasionally by branched, filiform gemmae along stems. Tufts or mats on logs, yellow-green or stramineous. Stems to 50 mm long, sparsely pinnate, pale orange, with tufts of reddish-brown rhizoids on main stem. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 1–2.2 mm long, 0.2–0.5 mm wide, plane, weakly secund or erect ascending when moist and dry; apex acuminate; margins entire, weakly toothed near apex, weakly recurved, without a border; cells linear, 45–110 μm long, 5–10 μm wide, much shorter at apex, otherwise uniform throughout; alar cells 1–3 in angles, subquadrate, 35–105 μm long, 12–40 μm wide, inflated, orange, with 1–4 irregular shaped cells above alar cells. Setae 7–18 mm long, orange, smooth. Capsules ovoid to rectangular, erect to inclined, asymmetric, 0.5–0.7 mm long. Operculum rostrate from conic base, c. 0.3 mm long.
