Lepyrodontaceae

Dioicous, with male plants full-sized or dwarfed (not in Victoria). Asexual propagules absent. Mats, turves or cushions on rocks and tree bases. Stems creeping, giving rise to numerous erect branches branched, tomentose with reddish or ferruginous rhizoids along creeping parts and bases of erect branches, without paraphyllia and pseudoparaphyllia; central strand weak. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, arranged around stem and facing all directions, larger on branches, imbricate, erect or erect-spreading when moist and dry; apices acuminate, often hair-pointed; costae single or branched, weak, extending up to ½ leaf length; margins serrulate toward apex, erect, unbordered; laminal cells short-linear, linear, or vermicular, pitted; alar cells not or poorly differentiated. Pleurocarpous. Capsules erect, straight, exserted, operculate. Calyptrae cucullate, smooth, glabrous. Peristome single (not in Victoria) or double; exostome teeth absent (not in Victoria) or rudimentary; endostome of 16 linear or irregular segments; cilia absent or rudimentary.