Plants small to large, glossy. Stems trailing; rhizoids on primary stems and at base of secondary stems, from clusters of initials abaxial to leaf insertions, not or sparsely and irregularly branched; axillary hairs 250-918 µm. Leaves closely or distantly spaced, ovate, oblong-ovate, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate, or linear, keeled, conduplicate, concave, or plane; margins sometimes broadly reflexed proximally, plane, erect, or involute at apex, entire proximally, entire or serrulate at apex; apex acute, broadly acute, or obtuse; ecostate or nearly so; alar cells subrectangular to oblong, enlarged, bulging, walls lax; medial laminal cells linear-fusiform to long-rhomboidal. Perigonia lateral on short branches. Perichaetia with leaves oval, suboval, or suborbiculate, sheathing setae and capsule. Seta 0.1-0.3 mm. Capsule immersed to slightly emergent, ovoid to subcylindric; annulus rudimentary; operculum conic to obtuse-conic; endostome trellis perfect or imperfect. Calyptra mitrate, covering distal capsule. Spores 12-50 µm, sometimes of 2 sizes.
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