Plants small to medium-sized, in soft, delicate, thin, flattened mats, white to pale green or bluish, glaucous. Stems irregularly branched to pinnate; hyalodermis present. Leaves complanate, shriveled or ± crisped when dry, ovate to broadly ovate, asymmetric, dorsiventral and lateral leaves similar in shape; margins plane or occasionally narrowly recurved, entire or serrulate distally; apex short-acuminate; costa 2/3-3/4 leaf length, ending in base of acumen, divergent, distal abaxial surface smooth; laminal cells hexagonal or oblong-hexagonal, lax, smooth; marginal cells forming border. Specialized asexual reproduction unknown. Sexual condition synoicous and autoicous; perichaetial leaf apex short-to long-acuminate. Seta dark red, smooth. Capsule inclined, horizontal, or pendulous, oblong-cylindric; annulus narrow; operculum straight, narrowly long-rostrate. Calyptra mitrate, base short-lobed, smooth.
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