Calliergonella

Dioicous. Stems creeping to erect, irregularly subpinnately branched, cuspidate, with rhizoids on ventral surface at or below leaf bases; pseudoparaphyllia foliose; central strand present. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, straight or falcate (not in Victoria), arranged around stem and facing all directions or slightly complanate, not plicate, decurrent; apex acuminate (not in Victoria), acute or cuspidate; costa absent or faint and short and double; margin entire or finely denticulate toward apex (not in Victoria), plane near base, incurved toward apex; laminal cells linear, smooth; alar cells well differentiated, numerous, inflated, rounded-oblong, hyaline, forming an auricle; stem leaves appressed; branch leaves erect-spreading, shorter and narrower than stem leaves. Capsules inclined or horizontal, curved, cylindric, furrowed when dry, with an annulus. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, glabrous. Peristome double; endostome with segments similar height as exostome, with high basal membrane; cilia present.