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.

leaves stiff, erect-appressed when dry, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.8–3 mm;

margins narrowly recurved-revolute to near apex, entire;

apex broadly acute to obtuse;

basal laminal cells elongate to long-rectangular, walls thick, sometimes nodose;

distal cells 7–12 µm, 1- stratose, smooth.

1.5–4 mm.

2–3 mm.

gonioautoicous.

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.

fully exserted, cylindric, 1.5–2.2 mm, slightly to distinctly 8-plicate to mid capsule;

stomata superficial;

peristome single;

prostome present, large;

exostome teeth 16, erect to spreading-reflexed when old and dry, smooth;

endostome segments absent.

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

short-conic, smooth, naked.

10–15 µm.

13–18 µm.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.