Plants in soft carpets or turfs. Stems 2-15 cm, regularly pinnate in protected sites, irregularly branched in mowed lawns, branches 1-3 cm; rhizoids absent. Stem leaves incurved, 2-2.5 mm; margins plane; apiculus abruptly reflexed; costa single; laminal cells 50-80 µm, smooth. Branch leaves 1-2 mm. Sporophytes unknown in North America.