Plants small, in tufts or loose cushions. Stems erect to ascending, branches erect to ascending. Leaves loosely erect, irregularly twisted or curved around stem, sometimes undulate when dry, erect-spreading to squarrose-recurved when moist, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, not rugose; base decurrent; margins entire, serrate or serrulate near apex; apex acute, usually apiculate; costa percurrent, ending near apex, or rarely excurrent; basal laminal cells subquadrate to rectangular; distal cells rounded-quadrate to rounded-hexagonal, 4-14 µm, smooth or densely multipapillose only over lumina, papillae 2-6 per cell, clavate; marginal cells not differentiated from basal. Sexual condition dioicous, autoicous, or synoicous; perichaetial leaves little different from stem leaves. Seta 3-13 mm. Capsule long-exserted, elliptic-oblong to fusiform, strongly 8-ribbed entire length, not constricted below mouth; stomata superficial; peristome double, single, or absent; exostome teeth 8, or 16 partially connate in 8 pairs, papillose; endostome segments 0, 8, or 16. Calyptra cucullate, conic, smooth, naked or rarely hairy, not plicate, covering distal portion of capsule. Spores isosporous.
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