Pseudoscleropodium

Dioicous. Mats on soil. Stems creeping or ascending, regularly to irregularly pinnately branched, with mostly straight branches, glabrous or with fascicles of rhizoids; paraphyllia absent; central strand present. Branch leaves smaller and narrower than stem leaves, otherwise not differentiated, broadly ovate, oblong-ovate or obovate, erect when moist or dry, imbricate, arranged around stem and facing all directions, strongly concave, often plicate when dry; apex obtuse or rounded and apiculate, reflexed or straight; costa simple, extending 1/2–2/3 of leaf length, not ending in a spine; margin entire or denticulate toward apex, plane to incurved near apex, sometimes narrowly recurved near base; laminal cells linear, smooth; alar cells differentiated, quadrate to rectangular, slightly inflated, forming a poorly delimited small triangular or broadly ovate group extending to ¼ of the way to costa. Seta smooth. Capsule inclined to pendent, curved, obloid or short-cylindric, with an annulus. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, glabrous. Operculum conic. Peristome double; endostome segments similar height as exostome, with high basal membrane; cilia present.