Eccremidium

Autoicous, paroicous, or synoicous. Asexual propagules absent. Turves or scattered plants on soil. Stem erect, sometimes appearing absent, simple or branched by innovation, with rhizoids at base; central strand present. Leaves becoming larger toward stem apex, ovate and imbricate or lanceolate or subulate from an oblong, elliptic or lanceolate base, erect or erect-spreading when moist or dry; apex acute to subulate or sometimes truncate to obtuse in lower leaves; costa subpercurrent to excurrent, sometimes weak or absent toward insertion or in basal leaves; margin entire to serrate, plane, without a border; laminal cells rhomboid to short-rectangular, becoming longer toward base, smooth; alar cells not differentiated. Capsule immersed and erect or pendent and laterally emergent, pyriform or globose, with stomata in basal half, without an annulus. Calyptra mitrate, entire or lobed at base, rough by projecting cell ends, glabrous. Operculum hemispheric, apiculate. Peristome absent.