Flora of North America species comparison

leaves stiff, erect-appressed when dry, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2–4.5 mm;

margins recurved to narrowly revolute to near apex, entire;

apex sharply to slenderly acute;

basal laminal cells elongate to rectangular, walls thick, ± nodose;

distal cells 6–13 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic and small, or 2-fid and 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.

to 1.8 mm.

2–3 mm.

gonioautoicous.

gonioautoicous.

immersed, emergent, or slightly exserted, usually 1/3 emergent, globose ovate, ovate-oblong, or short-oblong, 1.3–1.8 mm, slightly or distinctly 8-ribbed 1/2–2/3 length;

stomata superficial;

peristome single, rarely double;

prostome large, conspicuous, or rudimentary;

exostome teeth 16, erect or sometimes spreading-recurved when old, smooth, scattered-papillose, or coarsely papillose-granulate;

endostome segments absent, or rarely 8, rudimentary, of 1 row of cells, smooth or roughened.

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.

oblong, smooth, hairy or rarely naked, hairs finely papillose.

short-conic, smooth, naked.

13–21 µm.

13–18 µm.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.