Flora of North America species comparison

0.5–2.5 cm.

0.4–1.5 cm, green to pale orange or pink.

erect to ± spreading, lanceolate to elliptic, 0.8–2 mm;

margins serrulate to serrate in distal 1/3;

costa subpercurrent;

distal medial laminal cells linear-rhomboidal, vermicular, firm, 70–140 µm, walls thin.

erect-spreading to spreading, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.2–2.5 mm;

base not or scarcely decurrent;

margins serrate in distal 1/3;

costa subpercurrent;

distal medial laminal cells linear-hexagonal, 85–150 µm, walls thin.

orange to orange-brown.

orange-brown.

paroicous, rarely dioicous;

perigonial leaves in dioicous plants linear- or long-lanceolate from ovate base;

perichaetial leaves strongly or rarely weakly differentiated, linear-lanceolate.

dioicous;

perigonial leaves to 3 mm;

perichaetial leaves ± differentiated, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate.

inclined 10–135°, stramineous to orange-brown, long- and slender-pyriform, neck 1/2 urn length;

exothecial cells elongate-rectangular, walls straight;

stomata superficial;

annulus present;

operculum conic;

exostome teeth yellow-brown to red-brown, acute-triangular;

endostome hyaline, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length, segments broadly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia short to long.

inclined 145–180°, brown to stramineous, short-pyriform to urceolate, neck less than 1/3 urn length;

exothecial cells isodiametric, walls sinuate;

stomata immersed;

annulus absent;

operculum short- to long-conic;

exostome teeth yellow to yellow-brown, triangular-acute;

endostome hyaline, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length or slightly longer, segments tapered apically, distinctly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia long and nodulose, or short.

18–26 µm, ± coarsely papillose.

13–18 µm, finely roughened.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.