Flora of North America species comparison

1–8+ cm, pale to yellowish green, brown with age, creeping to erect, complanate-foliate or not, irregularly pinnate to nearly unbranched, attached shoots often regularly pinnate, branches 1–3 cm;

hyalodermis absent, central strand poorly developed;

pseudoparaphyllia filamentous, 1–3-seriate at base.

leaves curved to falcate-secund, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly triangular, strongly curved to insertion, gradually narrowed to apex, 1–1.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm;

base auriculate;

margins plane, often toothed on auriculate portion, entire or toothed distally;

apex long-attenuate;

costa double and short or obscure;

alar cells triangular, rectangular, or rhomboidal, region usually well defined, distalmost and outermost cells pitted, sometimes reduced or absent, outermost cells with walls not thinner;

basal laminal cells shorter, broader than medial cells, pigmented or walls pitted;

medial cells (50–)60–70(–80) × 4–5 µm. Sexual condition dioicous (phyllodioicous).

strongly imbricate, not to decidedly falcate-secund, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, gradually or abruptly narrowed to apex, 1.5–2 × 0.5–0.8 mm;

base not decurrent, not auriculate;

margins recurved to plane proximally, serrulate (sometimes weakly) distally, occasionally nearly entire;

acumen slender;

costa double and short or obscure;

alar region well defined, basalmost cells larger, sometimes hyaline, yellowish or brownish;

basal laminal cells shorter, wider than medial cells, not pigmented, walls not pitted;

medial cells (50–)60–80 × 3–4(–5) µm. Sexual condition dioicous;

inner perichaetial leaves oblong-lanceolate, margins serrulate distally, costa obscure.

reddish, 1–2.5(–3) cm.

red to red-brown, 2–2.3 cm.

slightly inclined, reddish, cylindric, 1.8–2.5(–2.8) mm;

annulus 1–3-seriate;

operculum conic to rostrate;

endostome cilia 1–2(–3).

inclined, brown, cylindric, 1.5–2 × 0.7–0.8 mm;

annulus 1- or 2-seriate;

operculum conic;

endostome cilia 2.