Plants medium sized to robust, forming loose to dense tufts, pale to dark green, blackish-green or golden-brown. Primary stems usually short creeping, leaves often eroded. Secondary stems suberect to subpendent, irregularly to regularly pinnately branched, branches few to many, occasionally simple. Leaves broadly ovate-lanceolate, undulate above or not, short to somewhat long acuminate, apices often fragile and deciduous, base slightly clasping, plicate; margins mostly plane, coarsely serrate distally; costae ending in acumen or rarely short excurrent; median cells irregularly rhombic or rectangular, porose or not, unipapillose, often faintly so; alar cells usually differentiated, cells isodiametric or oval, often stellate and oblate, or cells somewhat elongate and porose. Dioicous. Perigonia lateral, leaves bud-like. Perichaetia lateral, leaves shorter and broader than stem leaves, abruptly subulate. Setae short, usually as long as capsules or shorter, smooth. Capsules shortly exserted, urn broadly ovoid to subglobose; annuli present, revoluble; opercula conic-rostrate, oblique; peristome double, exostome teeth 16, papillose; endostome segments partially adnate to exostome, cilia absent. Calyptrae cucullate, short, smooth. Spores lightly papillose.
Plantas medianas a robustas, formando manojos laxos a densos, pálidas a verde oscuras, verde-negruzcas o pardo-doradas. Tallos primarios generalmente corto-reptantes, hojas a menudo erosionadas. Tallos secundarios suberectos hasta subpendientes, ramificaciones irregularmente a regularmente pinnadas, pocas a muchas ramas, ocasionalmente simples. Hojas ampliamentes ovado-lanceoladas, unduladas arriba o no, corto- hasta algo largo-acuminadas, ápices a menudo frágiles y deciduos, base escasamente amplectante, plegadas; márgenes generalmente planos, gruesamente serrados en la porción distal; costa terminando en acumen o rara vez corto-excurrente; células mediales irregularmente rómbicas o rectangulares, porosas o no, unipapilosas, a menudo débilmente; células alares generalmente diferenciadas, células isodiamétricas u ovales, a menudo estrelladas y oblatas, o células algo alargadas y porosas. Dioicas. Perigonios laterales, hojas en forma de brote. Periquecios laterales, hojas cortas y más anchas que las hojas del tallo, abruptamente subuladas. Setas cortas, generalmente tan largas como las cápsulas o más cortas, lisas. Cápsulas brevemente excertas, urna ampliamente ovoide a subglobosa; anillo presente, revoluble; opérculo cónico-rostrado, oblicuo; peristoma doble, exostoma con 16 dientes, papilosos; endostoma con segmentos parcialmente adnatos al exostoma, cilios ausentes. Caliptra cuculada, corta y lisa. Esporas finamente papilosas.