Flora of North America species comparison

0.8–10 cm.

0.5–1.5 cm, cherry red.

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.

stiffly erect and ± imbricate to erect-spreading, lanceolate, 0.6–1.3 mm;

base not or scarcely decurrent;

margins weakly serrulate in distal 1/3;

costa ending well before apex;

distal medial laminal cells broadly rhomboidal, 65–110 µm, walls thin.

orange-brown.

orange-brown.

dioicous;

perigonial leaves ovate;

perichaetial leaves weakly differentiated, lanceolate.

dioicous;

perigonial leaves to 3 mm;

perichaetial leaves somewhat differentiated, 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 ± 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 yellow to light brown, triangular-acute;

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

15–21 µm, finely roughened.

15–21 µm, finely roughened.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.