Plants small to large, glossy. Stems prostrate or pendent; rhizoids from initials abaxial to leaf insertions, not or irregularly branched; axillary hairs 100-300 µm. Leaves distant or crowded, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, keeled, conduplicate; margins plane or very narrowly recurved, entire or obscurely serrulate proximally, serrulate distally; apex obtuse, acute, or filiform-acuminate; costa subpercurrent to long-excurrent; alar cells quadrate or rectangular, not or slightly enlarged, walls firm; medial laminal cells linear to linear-rhomboidal. Perigonia lateral in leaf axils. Perichaetia with leaves elongate, sheathing setae. Seta 3-15(-20) mm. Capsule immersed, laterally emergent, emergent, or exserted, oval, oval-oblong, subcylindric, or cylindric; annulus rudimentary; operculum conic or obliquely long-rostrate; endostome trellis imperfect or perfect. Calyptra long-cucullate, covering capsule and often clasping base of seta when young. Spores 10-17 µm.
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