Flora of North America species comparison

leaves stiff, erect-appressed, slightly secund when dry, oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 2–4.3 mm;

margins revolute from base to near apex, entire;

apex obtuse, bluntly or narrowly acute, or gradually acuminate;

basal laminal cells rectangular to elongate, grading to elliptic-quadrate, walls thick, nodose;

distal cells 8–12 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1–3 per cell, conic or 2-fid, low.

1.5–4 mm.

gonioautoicous.

fully exserted, cylindric, 1.4–2.6 mm, smooth or sometimes slightly plicate distally;

exothecial cells homogeneous;

stomata superficial;

peristome double;

prostome absent or rudimentary;

exostome teeth 16, erect, papillose;

endostome segments 8, occasionally rudimentary, usually absent in open capsules, of 1 row of cells, smooth.

conic-oblong, smooth, sparsely hairy, hairs finely papillose.

10–15 µm.

asexual reproduction absent.