Plants medium-sized, rarely large, slightly turgid, rarely with golden gloss when dry. Stems unbranched or slightly and irregularly branched. Stem leaves imbricate or sometimes spreading, straight, broadly or very broadly ovate, suddenly narrowed to apex; margins entire; apex broadly rounded, flat; costa single, to 3/5-9/10 leaf length, rarely almost entire leaf length; alar cells long-rectangular, inflated, walls incrassate or strongly so, region transversely triangular or sometimes in one transverse row; distal laminal cells smooth. Perichaetia with inner leaves suddenly narrowed to apex, apex obtuse or acute. Capsule horizontal to inclined.