Anoectangium

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.