Fruit bodies up to 2 cm high, up to 1 cm broad, very slender and extremely delicate, branched in 1-3 ranks. All parts ivory-coloured ("light buff', "cartridge¬buff"). Stipe pale pinkish yellow to dull yellow ("warm buff") at base, arising from extremely small whitish mycelial patches on substrate. Branches dichotomous, much less than 1 mm thick; axils rounded to lunate. Apices prolonged, lyre-shaped, awl-shaped.

Tramal hyphae of branches uninflated, hyaline, clamped, parallel, agglutinated. Subhymenium pseudoparenchymatous, agglutinated. Hymenium thickening somewhat; basidia 18-25 x 5-6 gm, subcylindrical, clamped, adherent; sterigmata 4, long, straight, divergent, crowded.

Spores 2.7-3.6 x 2.2 gm, ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline; contents uniguttulate when mature; hilar appendix small, papillate.

On soil with algae and/or moss protonemata.