Plants medium-sized to large, in greenish-brown to yellowish-brown mats. Stems 2-9 cm long, sometimes brown-tomentose; cells of the hyaloderm collapsed. Propagula on short stalks on the upper part of the stems, obovoid, mostly with 2 cross-septa, 50-75 ´ 30-35 µm. Leaves erect and flexuose to contorted when dry, squarrose-recurved when moist, keeled above, 3.5-4 mm long, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute or broadly acute, sheathing at base, decurrent; margins recurved in the lower 1/2-2/3, dentate in the upper 1/3, with a marginal row of cells sparsely papillose above, elongate below; costa ending 2-5 cells below the apex, papillose dorsally, reniform in section; upper cells 11-15 µm, subquadrate, with spiculate papillae in a crown-like ring, raised by the bulging cell surface and often with a high-columnar base; inner basal cells rectangular, 50-70 ´ 11-14 µm, thin-walled, in large, well-marked window-like areas. Sporophytes unknown.