Flora of North America species comparison

0.8–10 cm.

0.5–2.5 cm.

laxly spreading to more stiffly erect, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.6–1.2 mm;

margins weakly to strongly serrulate in distal 1/3;

costa ending well before apex;

distal medial laminal cells laxly and broadly hexagonal to rhomboidal, 65–110 µm, walls thin.

erect to ± spreading, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm;

margins subentire or more often serrulate to serrate in distal 1/3;

costa subpercurrent or percurrent;

distal medial laminal cells hexagonal to rhomboidal, firm, 45–85 µm, walls moderately thick.

orange-brown.

orange to orange-brown.

dioicous;

perigonial leaves ovate;

perichaetial leaves weakly differentiated, lanceolate.

paroicous, autoicous, or rarely dioicous;

perigonial leaves in dioicous plants broadly short-ovate;

perichaetial leaves somewhat differentiated, ± long-lanceolate.

inclined ± 180°, brown to red-brown, sometimes 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 light brown to red-brown, triangular-acute;

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

inclined 10–90°, stramineous, orange, or orange-brown, short- to long- and slender-pyriform, neck 1/2–1 time urn length;

exothecial cells elongate-rectangular, walls straight;

stomata superficial;

annulus present;

operculum conic;

exostome teeth yellow to brown, acute-triangular;

endostome hyaline, basal membrane barely exceeding capsule rim or to 1/3 exostome length, segments narrowly or not keeled, narrowly to not perforate, cilia absent to rudimentary, rarely long.

15–21 µm, finely roughened.

16–23 µm, distinctly roughened.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.