Plants: small to medium-sized. Stems: pinnate. Stem: and branch leaves with shape similar, size often noticeably differentiated; margins serrulate; ecostate or costa double, short; medial and distal laminal cells oblong-rhomboidal. Sexual: condition phyllodioicous. Seta: orangish red, fading to yellow with age. Capsule: with operculum obliquely conic-rostrate. North America, West Indies (Cuba), e Asia.
Species ca. 6 (1 in the flora). Recent molecular evidence suggests that Schwetschkeopsis might be more closely allied to members of Anomodontaceae than Myriniaceae (W. R. Buck and B. Goffinet 2000).