Plants small, in low mats, yellowish to whitish, shiny. Stems creeping, regularly or irregularly pinnate, ; hyalodermis absent, central strand present, small; pseudoparaphyllia foliose. Stem and branch leaves similar. Stem leaves appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate, , not or slightly plicate; base not or weakly decurrent; margins plane, sometimes slightly involute distally, subentire to serrulate distally; apex acuminate; costa double and short or indistinct; alar cells differentiated, subquadrate to rectangular; laminal cells smooth; . Branch leaves narrowly ovate-to oblong-lanceolate, smaller to occasionally somewhat larger than stem leaves. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition autoicous; inner perichaetial leaves erect, oblong-lanceolate, apex subulate. Seta yellowish or reddish. Capsule erect to suberect, oblong-cylindric to oblong-ovoid, straight, not contracted below mouth; annulus differentiated or not; operculum conic to rostrate, obliquely short-to long-acute or obtuse; peristome perfect to reduced, hygroscopic; exostome teeth with external surface smooth basally, sometimes roughly papillose distally; endostome basal membrane present, segments sometimes 2-fid or fragmentary, keeled, cilia rudimentary. Calyptra naked. Spores spheric [somewhat tetrapozoidal by endosporic protonemata], finely papillose.
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