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, loosely erect-appressed when dry, narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 1.4–2.9 mm;

margins strongly revolute to just before apex, entire;

apex obtuse to bluntly acute, not incurved when dry;

basal laminal cells subquadrate to short-rectangular, walls thin, not nodose;

distal cells 8–10 µm, 1-stratose, lumina irregular due to uneven wall thickenings, papillae 1–2 per cell, conic, low.

1.5–4 mm.

to 1 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.

emergent, oblong to ovate, 1–1.5 mm, 8-ribbed almost to base, ribs thin, delicate, not constricted below mouth;

stomata immersed, mid capsule, 1/2 to completely covered by subsidiary cells, cells projecting vertically over stomata, inner walls thickened;

peristome double;

prostome absent;

exostome teeth 8, splitting to 16 with age, reflexed, finely and densely papillose;

endostome often absent, or segments 8, well developed, of 1 row of cells, smooth.

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

oblong, smooth, naked or slightly hairy, hairs smooth.

10–15 µm.

15–19 µm.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.

with hairs absent.