Plants large, rarely medium-sized, turgid, with golden gloss when dry. Stems slightly and irregularly branched. Stem leaves imbricate or sometimes ± spreading, straight, ovate or broadly ovate, suddenly narrowed to apex; margins entire or occasionally partly very finely denticulate; apex broadly obtuse or rounded, short-apiculate, strongly concave; costa double, to 1/5-2/5 leaf length, rarely single and slightly longer; alar cells quadrate or rectangular, slightly inflated, walls incrassate or strongly so, region transversely triangular; distal laminal cells smooth. Perichaetia with inner leaves gradually or suddenly narrowed to apex, apex short-acuminate. Capsule horizontal to inclined.