Plants small, in mats, pale green, dark green, or brownish. Stems freely branched to subpinnate; paraphyllia few, linear-lanceolate, cells smooth; sparsely radiculose. Stem and branch leaves similar or differentiated. Stem leaves erect or somewhat recurved when dry, erect-spreading when moist, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, plicate on one side, 2-plicate, or plane; margins plane or ± recurved proximally, entire to subserrulate distally, ; apex acute, acuminate, or obtuse, hair-point absent; costa single, subpercurrent or ending before apex, , often flexuose-curved distally; alar cells weakly differentiated, subquadrate; medial and distal laminal cells irregularly quadrate-hexagonal, ± 1-papillose on abaxial or both surfaces, walls thick; . Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves pale brown, erect, elongate, apex acuminate. Seta0.4-1.2 cm. Capsule erect, cylindric to oblong-cylindric, symmetric to distinctly curved; annulus narrow or absent; operculum conic; peristome reduced; exostome teeth linear-lanceolate, usually cross striolate near base, sometimes densely papillose throughout; endostome basal membrane low, segments long-linear, cilia absent or rudimentary. Spores 9-18 µm, smooth to very finely papillose.
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