Plants small to medium-sized, in thin mats, yellow-green, gold-green, or green. Stems irregularly branched; paraphyllia many on branches, few on stems, filamentous to foliose, cells smooth or prorulose; rhizoids in clusters arising from base of stem leaves. Stem and branch leaves similar. Stem leaves appressed to julaceous when dry, erect-spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, strongly plicate proximally; margins recurved proximally, serrate distally, ; apex abruptly to gradually acuminate, hair-point absent; costa single, 2/3 leaf length to subpercurrent, , not sinuate; alar cells quadrate to short-rectangular; proximal laminal cells elongate, linear-fusiform, more than 3:1, walls somewhat pitted; medial cells linear-fusiform, <4-8:1>, smooth or occasionally prorulose, walls thin. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous; perichaetial leaves pale translucent, squarrose when moist, longer, apex more acuminate, costa short. Seta 0.4-1.6 cm. Capsule erect, ovate to cylindric, symmetric; annulus absent; operculum conic; peristome strongly reduced; exostome teeth lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, papillose; endostome basal membrane low, segments slenderly lanceolate to filiform, cilia absent. Spores 14-22 µm, coarsely papillose.
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