Plants small, in dense cushions. Stems erect, branches ascending. Leaves twisted and contorted when dry, spreading when moist, linear to narrowly lanceolate, not rugose; margins entire or toothed; apex acute; costa percurrent or short-excurrent; basal laminal cells rectangular; distal cells rounded, 5-11 µm, papillose over lumina and transverse walls, papillae cuticular; marginal cells not much different from basal. Sexual condition autoicous or dioicous; perichaetial leaves larger than stem leaves. Seta 1-3.5 mm. Capsule mostly emergent to immersed, oblong, 8-ribbed, constricted below mouth; stomata superficial; peristome absent. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, naked, not plicate, covering 1/2 capsule. Spores isosporous.
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