Plants: reddish to black. Leaves: erect-spreading, straight or sometimes secund, lanceolate, widest proximally, apex symmetric; costa absent; leaf margins entire; basal laminal cells rectangular to long-rectangular, marginal cells quadrate, walls little pitted; medial laminal cells rounded-quadrate to ovate, 1-stratose entirely or sometimes 2-stratose in patches distally, lumens rounded; laminal papillae rare, low. Sexual: condition cladautoicous; perichaetial leaves differentiated, convolute-sheathing. Spores: 12–20(–30) µm.
Acidic rock faces, occasionally thin soil. moderate elevations. B.C., South America (Argentina, Ecuador), nw Europe, Asia (e China), Atlantic Islands (Kerguelen Island), Pacific Islands (including New Zealand), Australia. Discussion.