Flora of North America species comparison

with branching angle wide, branches firmly attached;

pseudoparaphyllia foliose;

rhizoids below or at abaxial leaf insertion, red-brown, smooth.

erect-spreading, 0.1–0.3 mm;

base not much narrowed to insertion;

margins entire or nearly so;

alar cells subquadrate, region of 3–6+ cells;

distal laminal cells oblong-rhombic, 2–3(–4):1.

0.6–0.8 cm.

autoicous;

perichaetial leaf margins entire or obscurely serrulate distally.

inclined to horizontal or rarely suberect, shortly oblong-cylindric, asymmetric, 0.8–1.2 mm, contracted below mouth when dry, neck short;

stomata at base of capsule;

annulus 2-seriate;

operculum convex-conic, stoutly apiculate;

exostome teeth yellow-brown;

endostome cilia in groups of 2 or 3, well developed.

11–13 µm.

asexual reproduction absent.