Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)4–5(–10) cm, simple, brownish tomentose only near the base.

2–9 cm, simple, erect, in proximal part moderately to densely brownish tomentose.

3–6(–8) mm, densely imbricate, ± erect and almost straight when dry, erect-spreading to widely spreading when moist;

sheath oblong-rectangular, yellowish, tapering to the blade;

blade slender, bluish green and nitid, rather flat, with sharply infolded margins;

marginal lamina 5–7 cells wide, 1-stratose, entire or minutely crenulate, membranous and transparent, enclosing the lamellae and overlapping towards the apex;

costa usually somewhat toothed distally, excurrent, forming a subulate, toothed awn, the awn reddish brown throughout or slightly decolorate at tip;

lamellae bluntly crenate in profile, 6–8 cells high, the marginal cells in cross-section ovate to pyriform, thick-walled, ending in a distinct knob, smooth or rarely faintly papillose, the marginal cells of lateral lamellae (enclosed by the overlapping margins) ovoid and less strongly thickened;

sheath cells 70–100 × 6–10 µm, narrowly rectangular (4–6:1), narrower toward the margin;

cells of the broad marginal lamina transversely elongate, very thick-walled.

3–8 mm, loosely imbricate, appressed to erect-spreading and flexuose when dry, patent to widely spreading and weakly recurved when moist;

sheath rectangular, scarcely narrowed to the blade;

blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, often caducous at the junction of sheath and blade, the apex subulate, weakly channeled;

marginal lamina 6–9 cells wide, distantly toothed to subentire;

costa excurrent as short brown entire to serrulate tip, smooth abaxially or with a few teeth near apex;

lamellae in profile entire to shallowly crenulate, 5–10 cells high, the marginal cells in section usually somewhat broadened, flat-topped or shallowly grooved, single or geminate, thin-walled, smooth, the marginal cells of lateral lamellae asymmetric;

median sheath cells 75–110 × 2–12 µm, linear;

cells of marginal lamina 9–15 µm, quadrate, thin- to firm-walled;

perichaetial leaves with long sheathing bases and short subulate blade.

(1–)3–5 cm, stout, yellowish to reddish brown.

2.5–5 cm, reddish brown.

dioicous;

perigonial rosettes yellowish to reddish green;

perichaetial leaves longer than the foliage leaves, long-sheathing, the blade almost obsolete, ending in a slender yellowish or hyaline awn.

2.5–5 mm, rectangular, longer than wide (1.5–2:1), reddish brown to dark brown, glaucous when fresh, suberect, becoming horizontal when mature, sharply 4-angled and prismatic;

peristome 200–240 µm, divided to 0.6–0.8, the teeth 64, keeled at back.

2.5–3 cm, ± cubic, sharply 4–angled, suberect when mature, becoming horizontal when old;

peristome teeth 64, 160–210 µm, obtuse, the basal portion 60–75 µm. Spores 12–15 µm.

whitish to light brown, covering the capsule.

6–10(–12) µm.