Blindia B.S.G., Bryol. Eur. 2: 17. 1846.

Plants medium sized, brown to yellow-green. Leaves lanceolate, erect-spreading to secund; costa single, strong, excurrent; cells smooth, incrassate, upper cells short, basal cells linear, alar cells well-developed, inflated, red-brown. Dioicous. Setae erect; capsules exserted, erect, stomata present; annuli simple; peristome teeth 16, lanceolate, smooth. Calyptrae cucullate.