Leaf 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 in Venezuela, Brazil.

The citation for Georgia by H. Crum and L. E. Anderson (1981, vol. 1, p. 382) may have been based on a specimen here redetermined as Hyophila involuta (Hook.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. (Anderson and Crum 13658, CANM, DUKE).