Plants small to medium-sized, dull. Stems prostrate or pendent; rhizoids from clusters of initials abaxial to leaf insertions, not or weakly branched; axillary hairs 240-360 µm. Leaves distant proximally, crowded distally, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, keeled, conduplicate; margins sometimes narrowly reflexed, entire or serrulate proximally, serrulate to serrate at apex; apex obtuse to acute; costa subpercurrent to percurrent; alar cells quadrate or rectangular, slightly enlarged, walls firm; medial laminal cells rhomboidal, linear-rhomboidal, or elongate. Perigonia lateral in leaf axils. Perichaetia with leaves elongate, sheathing setae. Seta 0.7-1.5 mm. Capsule immersed, oblong-cylindric to oval; annulus massive; operculum long-conic or occasionally obliquely rostrate; endostome trellis imperfect. Calyptra cucullate, covering only operculum. Spores 13-18 µm.