Plants very small to large, in loose to dense tufts or mats, green, yellowish, golden, reddish, or brownish, shiny. Stems erect to ascending, rarely creeping, not to sparsely branched; hyalodermis absent, central strand present; pseudoparaphyllia absent. Stem and branch leaves similar, erect to erect-spreading, lanceolate to ovate, , not to strongly plicate; base decurrent or not; margins incurved proximally, plane or recurved distally, entire or minutely serrulate at apex; apex acuminate; ecostate or costa short, double to mid leaf, one branch usually longer; alar cells not or poorly differentiated, rectangular; laminal cells smooth; . Specialized asexual reproduction very rare, by axillary propagula. Sexual condition dioicous; perichaetial leaves lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or ovate-triangular, apex acuminate. Seta golden brown, purple, or reddish. Capsule erect, cylindric to subglobose, symmetric to slightly asymmetric, commonly flaring at mouth; annulus 2-or 3-seriate, cell walls ± thick; operculum conic; peristome double, attached at mouth; exostome teeth with external surface with zigzag center line, cross striolate proximally, papillose distally; endostome basal membrane low to moderately high, segments as long as exostome to somewhat longer, broad to linear, keeled, cilia present or absent. Calyptra naked. Spores round, essentially smooth.
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