Flora of North America species comparison

mostly branched;

axillary hyaline nodules absent;

central strand present.

unbranched;

axillary hyaline nodules present;

central strand absent.

as many as 15 pairs, often undulate, oblong to lanceolate, obtuse to broadly acute, cuspidate, to 2.7 mm × 0.6 mm;

dorsal lamina truncate-rounded proximally, ending at insertion, not decurrent;

vaginant laminae 2/3 the leaf length, ± equal, minor lamina ending on or near margin;

margin evenly serrulate, often crenulate-serrulate on dorsal and ventral laminae, elimbate;

costa ending in cuspidate apex, taxifolius-type;

laminal cells 1-stratose, distinct, smooth, bulging, firm-walled, irregularly hexagonal, 8–11 µm frequently paler at margin, conspicuously mammillose in vaginant laminae, larger and clearer juxtacostally.

as many as 9 pairs, lanceolate, acute to obtuse-apiculate, to 0.5–1 × 0.1–0.2 mm;

dorsal lamina narrowed proximally, ending at insertion or slightly before;

vaginant laminae 1/2–2/3 leaf length, ± unequal, minor lamina ending near margin;

margin ± entire, elimbate or irregularly limbate, limbidium best developed on perichaetial and subtending leaves, limbidial cells 1-stratose, infrequently 2-stratose;

costa ending 2–3 cells before apex to percurrent, bryoides-type;

laminal cells 1-stratose, smooth, slightly bulging, firm-walled, irregularly hexagonal, 9–11 µm, many slightly longer than wide.

to 17 mm.

2–23.5 mm.

rhizautoicous;

perigonia on short branches proximal to elongate stems;

perichaetia on short, proximal, axillary branches.

rhizautoicous and gonioautoicous;

perigonia gemmiform, proximal to infertile and fertile stems, and axillary.

theca slightly inclined, slightly arcuate, bilaterally symmetric, to 1.5 mm;

peristome taxifolius-type;

operculum to 1 mm.

theca exserted, erect, radially symmetric to ± arcuate, bilaterally symmetric;

peristome bryoides-type;

operculum 0.2 mm.

cucullate, smooth, to 2 mm.

and spores not seen.

13–18 µm.

1 per perichaetium.

1 per perichaetium.