Flora of North America species comparison

0.2–0.6 cm.

to 3(–5) cm, comose from a wiry base, mostly unbranched.

2–4 mm, when dry loosely sheathing at the base, the blade narrow, curved and often hooked at the tips, erect-spreading and almost straight when moist;

sheath oblong to oblong-ovate, in leaves near the base of the shoot abruptly contracted to the blade, in distal leaves more gradually tapering, not hyaline-margined, with a narrow strip of incrassate cells at the shoulders;

blade narrowly lanceolate to linear, slenderly acuminate, ending in a short point;

marginal lamina ± plane, variable in width, 1-stratose, irregularly notched-dentate or at times almost entire;

costa smooth or weakly toothed abaxially near the tip;

lamellae 11–16, entire in profile, 4–8 cells high, the marginal cells larger and rounded in section, single or in pairs, smooth;

sheath cells short-rectangular;

cells of lamina 10–12 µm, subquadrate to irregular.

2.5–6 mm, loosely imbricate, erect and somewhat incurved when dry, plane and erect-spreading when moist;

sheath short-ovate, not hyaline-margined, abruptly contracted to the blade, the group of incrassate hinge-cells at the shoulders not much differentiated;

blade rather broadly oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate;

marginal lamina erect, narrowly inflexed when dry, 1-stratose, 1–3 cells wide, toothed nearly to the shoulders with multicellular, uncinate teeth (rarely serrulate, but never entire), the teeth broadly triangular, (1–)3–7-celled, the terminal cell not much larger than the others;

costa percurrent or slightly excurrent as a short, smooth to denticulate point, smooth or sparsely toothed near the tip;

lamellae 20–30, entire or slightly crenulate in profile, 5–7 cells high, the marginal cells thick-walled and coarsely papillose, ± rectangular and flat-topped in section, broader than high, the lumen quadrate;

median sheath cells short-rectangular, thin-walled;

cells on abaxial surface of blade transversely elongate, 25–30 × 12–18 µm, with a median strip of cells shorter and ± isodiametric.

1–3.5 cm, reddish.

1–3.5(–5) cm, brownish, straight to flexuose.

2.5–4 mm, erect or nearly so, sometimes indistinctly angled;

exothecium scabrous, the cells short-rectangular, thick-walled;

operculum obliquely rostrate;

peristome 190–220 µm, divided to 0.8.

2–3 mm, erect to somewhat inclined, brownish;

exothecium mammillose, the cells short-rectangular, incrassate, appearing distinctly pitted in surface view;

peristome 350–450 µm, deeply divided from 0.8 to nearly to the base, the teeth slender, reddish brown with hyaline margins.

9–12 µm.

18–24 µm.