Plants small, glossy yellow green to dark green when living, brown to yellowish when old, 1--2 cm, irregularly to regularly pinnate to 2-pinnate with stem and branch tips sharply pointed, forming loose mats. Stem leaves concave, 1 × 0.5 mm excluding the piliferous point, which is 0.5 mm or longer. Specialized asexual reproduction unknown. Sporophytes unknown.

Mainly on shaded rock in humid sites, 0--100 m; B.C. (restricted to the Queen Charlotte Islands, Haida Gwaii).

This species is closely related to Wijkia tanytricha (Montagne) H. A. Crum of southeastern Asia, and differs mainly in size and habitus. Its exclusively vegetative reproduction indicates a clone that is slowly disseminated, because sporophytes and specialized vegetative reproduction are lacking.