Calyptrochaeta

Autoicous (not in Victoria) or dioicous. Asexual reproduction occasionally by filamentous gemmae produced in leaf axils and distal parts of stem among leaves (not in Victoria). Turves or tufts on soil, rocks, logs or tree fern or tree trunks, sometimes in water. Stems creeping or erect, simple or dichotomously branched, with rhizoids mainly at stem base and leaf bases and in axils; central strand present (not in Victoria) or absent. Leaves complanate, in 6 or 8 ranks, crisped or scarcely altered when dry, those in lateral ranks orbicular, ovate, elliptic, oblong or obovate, asymmetric and spreading, those in dorsal and ventral ranks broadly ovate to elliptic to obovate, usually smaller than lateral leaves, symmetric or asymmetric and appressed; apex broadly acute, obtuse or apiculate, without a hairpoint; costa short, often weak, unevenly forked, sometimes absent; margin entire or denticulate to dentate near apex, plane, with a border of more elongate cells; laminal cells hexagonal, pentagonal, rhomboid or oblong-hexagonal, smooth. Seta spiny or papillose. Capsule vertical to pendent, symmetric, ovoid, smooth when dry, with annulus falling with operculum. Calyptra mitrate, smooth, hairy throughout or fimbriate at base. Operculum rostrate. Peristome double; endostome equal in height to exostome, with a high basal membrane; cilia absent, rudimentary or well-developed (not in Victoria).