Hampeella

Dioicous. Asexual reproduction by filiform gemmae in upper leaf axils. Tufts on trees and logs. Primary stem inconspicuous or elongate and creeping (not in Victoria). Secondary stem erect to pendent, simple or irregularly branched, orange to orange-red, with rhizoids restricted to base; paraphyllia absent. Leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, arranged around stem and facing all directions or complanate, erect-spreading when moist, scarcely altered or becoming appressed when dry, symmetric or asymmetric, not plicate, not decurrent; apex acute to acuminate, occasionally reflexed, without a hairpoint; costa short and double or absent; margin entire to serrate, plane or recurved on one or both sides; laminal cells linear to fusiform, smooth; alar cells not differentiated, or differentiated and quadrate to short-rectangular, sometimes inflated, and yellowish, orange or red-brown. Capsule erect or inclined, straight or slightly curved, cylindric or obloid, exserted, longitudinally 8-ribbed, with an annulus, sometimes poorly defined. Calyptra cucullate. Operculum rostrate, c. ½–2/3 as long as capsule. Peristome double; endostome with processes almost equalling to slightly longer than exostome height, with basal membrane c. ½ height of exostome; cilia absent.