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, 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.

to 1.8 mm.

1–1.5 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.

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.

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

oblong, smooth, hairy, hairs papillose.

13–21 µm.

10–15 µm.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.