Plants medium-sized, in dense, flat mats, dark green, brownish, or yellowish, glossy or somewhat shiny. Stems creeping, irregularly branched; hyalodermis absent, central strand absent; pseudoparaphyllia foliose. Stem and branch leaves similar, erect-spreading or homomallous, oblong-ovate, not plicate; base not decurrent; margins erect or occasionally reflexed proximally, entire or serrulate distally; apex abruptly acuminate, subulate or not; costa double and short or ecostate; alar cells differentiated, quadrate or quadrate-rectangular; laminal cells smooth; . Specialized asexual reproduction by dense axillary clusters of short brood branches. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves erect, oblong, apex acuminate. Seta yellow-orange, red, or purple. Capsule inclined to horizontal, oblong-cylindric, asymmetric, arcuate, contracted below mouth; annulus 1-or 2-seriate, deciduous, cells large; operculum convex-conic, apiculate to short-rostrate; peristome double; exostome teeth with external surface cross striolate basally, papillose distally; endostome basal membrane distinct, segments keeled, cilia 1 or 2, nodulose. Calyptra naked. Spores round, smooth to minutely papillose.
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