Flora of North America species comparison

0.8–10 cm.

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

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-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-brown.

orange-brown.

dioicous;

perigonial leaves ovate;

perichaetial leaves weakly differentiated, lanceolate.

dioicous;

perigonial leaves to 3 mm;

perichaetial leaves ± differentiated, lanceolate to linear-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 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.

15–21 µm, finely roughened.

13–18 µm, finely roughened.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.