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, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate-ligulate, 1.3–3 mm;

margins recurved, becoming incurved or plane at apex, entire;

apex narrowly obtuse, acute to notched and channeled;

basal laminal cells rectangular, occasionally polygonal, walls thin to occasionally thick, rarely nodose;

distal cells 10–16 µm, 1-stratose, papillae 2 or 3 per cell, simple, low.

to 1.8 mm.

0.5–1 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.

emergent, cylindric when dry, 1.5–2 mm, slightly 8-ribbed entire length, ribs thin, delicate when dry, constricted below mouth when dry;

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

peristome double;

prostome absent;

exostome teeth 8, reflexed, finely papillose;

endostome segments 8, well developed, of 1 (or 2) rows of cells, smooth to faintly papillose.

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

oblong-conic, smooth, hairy distally, hairs smooth.

13–21 µm.

14–18 µm.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction sometimes present by gemmae on leaves.

with hairs present.