Leaves apiculate; costa percurrent to excurrent; adaxial distal laminal cells mammillose, smooth on both surfaces.

Capsules mature winter (late Dec, Feb) to spring. Shaded or exposed moist limestone, quarries, brick mortar, stream banks; low elevations; Fla.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America (Brazil, Venezuela).

The citation for Georgia by H. A. Crum and L. E. Anderson (1981) may have been based on a specimen here redetermined as Hyophila involuta (Anderson & Crum 13658, CANM, DUKE).