Leaves ovate to obovate or elliptical, apex acute, short-awned, sometimes long, margins plane or rarely weakly recurved medially, not bordered; costa long-excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2-3 cells across adaxial surface; distal laminal cells subquadrate or occasionally hexagonal, 16-22 µm wide, 1(-2):1, smooth. Sexual condition autoicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 1-1.4 cm. Capsule stegocarpic, not systylius (but columella falls with operculum), obovate to cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 0.8-1.6 mm; peristome absent; operculum 0.6-1 mm. Spores 23-30 µm, spheric, granulose-papillose papillose.