Flora of North America species comparison

0.5–8 cm.

1–3 cm.

flexuose to crisped when dry, laxly erect to erect-spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate to linear, 4–7 mm;

base scarcely sheathing, shoulders well developed, firm;

margins revolute, coarsely toothed distally, teeth paired;

apex subulate;

costa excurrent, prominent, distal abaxial surface rough;

basal laminal cell walls thin;

medial and distal cells 4–15 × 4–8 µm, prorulae high.

stiffly erect-appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–4 mm;

base not sheathing, shoulders absent;

margins recurved from near base to distal acumen, serrulate distally, teeth single;

apex narrowly aristate;

costa excurrent, abaxially prominent, distal abaxial surface rough;

basal laminal cell walls thin;

medial and distal cells 12–20 × 4–6 µm, prorulae low.

0.5–2.5 cm, flexuose.

0.1–1.5 cm, straight.

autoicous or synoicous.

synoicous.

inclined, globose to ovoid, asymmetric, 1.5–2.5 mm;

operculum conic convex;

peristome double;

exostome teeth 375–450 µm, granulose-papillose throughout;

endostome basal membrane high, segments somewhat shorter than teeth, finely seriate-papillose, cilia rudimentary.

erect, subglobose to ovoid, symmetric, 1.4–2 mm;

operculum conic convex;

peristome single;

exostome teeth 250–300 µm, striolate papillose proximally, smooth distally;

endostome absent.

20–26 µm.

22–26 µm.