Dioicous. Asexual reproduction rarely by gemmae in leaf axils (not in Victoria). Turves or mats on rocks. Stem simple or sparingly branched, sparsely covered in (not in Victoria), or with a dense tomentum of rhizoids; central strand present; sclerodermis weak; hyalodermis absent. Leaves ligulate to lanceolate, erect-spreading when moist, occasionally secund (not in Victoria), appressed, incurved and twisted when dry; apex obtuse (not in Victoria), acute or acuminate; costa subpercurrent to short-excurrent as a mucro, with elongate to quadrate adaxial superficial cells, with a weakly differentiated adaxial epidermis or adaxial epidermis not differentiated, without an adaxial stereid band, without a hydroid strand, with an abaxial stereid band, with a differentiated abaxial epidermis, with elongate abaxial superficial cells; margin entire or occasionally weakly denticulate, plane or recurved in basal half (not in Victoria), without a border; laminal cells subquadrate or rectangular, longer near base, pluripapillose in apical half with simple or forking papillae, KOH reaction yellow to yellow-orange. Cladocarpous. Capsule erect, straight, ovoid to ellipsoid, exserted, operculate, with an annulus. Calyptra cucullate. Operculum rostrate. Peristome absent.
