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, closely erect-appressed, incurved when dry, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2–2.7 mm;

margins recurved proximally, reflexed distally, entire;

apex blunt or obtuse;

basal laminal cells short-rectangular to quadrate, grading to subquadrate at margin, walls thin, not nodose;

distal cells 6–11 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1–3 per cell, conic or 2-fid, large.

1.5–4 mm.

1–1.5 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.

1/2 emergent to short-exserted, oblong-ovate to ovate when mature, oblong to short-oblong when old and dry, 1.2–1.9 mm, strongly 8-ribbed entire length, rarely 16-ribbed with 8 short intermediate ribs, constricted below mouth when dry;

stomata immersed;

peristome single;

prostome rudimentary;

exostome teeth usually 16 when mature, irregularly split, often absent when capsule is old, erect or spreading, papillose-striate to coarsely reticulate-papillose;

endostome segments absent.

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

oblong, smooth, hairy, hairs papillose.

10–15 µm.

10–15 µm.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.