Flora of North America species comparison

6–12(–20) cm, simple, densely matted with wooly whitish to light-brownish tomentum.

2–6(–10) cm, simple or more commonly fasciculately branched, whitish tomentose only at base.

2–5(–6) mm, erect to closely appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist;

sheath oblong-rectangular, brownish, ± abruptly contracted to the blade;

blade narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, flat, with sharply infolded margins;

marginal lamina 6–7 cells wide, 1-stratose, entire to finely crenulate above, membranous and transparent, abruptly infolded and enclosing the lamellae and overlapping towards the apex;

costa toothed abaxially towards the apex, short-excurrent as a short, reddish brown awn;

lamellae bluntly crenate in profile, 5–8 cells high, the marginal cells in section pyriform, thick-walled, ending in a thickened knob, end cells of lateral lamellae ovoid and scarcely thickened at the apex;

sheath cells 45–80 × 7–10 µm, elongate-rectangular (5–7:1), narrower toward the margin;

cells of the marginal lamina transversely elongate, shorter and obliquely oriented towards the margins, very thick-walled and colorless.

3–6 mm, crowded in distal half stem, erect and closely appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist;

sheath rectangular, abruptly contracted to the blade;

blade linear-lanceolate, rather flat, with sharply infolded margins, channeled at the apex and tapering to the bicolored awn;

marginal lamina 7–9 cells wide, 1-stratose, entire, membranous, infolded and overlapping, completely enclosing the lamellae;

costa excurrent with low blunt teeth abaxially near apex, the awn coarsely spinulose at the base, brown in the basal 1/3 to 1/2, hyaline distally;

lamellae 5–9 cells high, the marginal cells in section ovoid, somewhat larger than cells below, thin-walled or very slightly thickened at apex;

median sheath cells 45–90 × 12–15 µm, narrowly rectangular, thin-walled;

cells of marginal lamina 10–15 × 24–45 µm, thick-walled, obliquely oriented and shorter toward the margin and thin-walled.

2–4 cm, yellowish to reddish brown.

rather short for plant size, 1.2–3 cm, reddish.

dioicous;

perichaetial leaves somewhat longer than the stem leaves, ending in a slender awn.

dioicous;

perichaetial leaves elongate, with hyaline lamina and long, tapering awn.

2–3 mm, short-rectangular to almost cubic (1–1.5:1), brownish, sharply 4-angled and prismatic, suberect, becoming horizontal when ripe;

peristome 200–230 µm, divided to 0.8, the teeth 64, obtuse.

2.3–3 mm, ovoid-rectangular (1.2–2:1), somewhat broader at base, sharply 4(–5)-angled, erect, becoming inclined to horizontal when mature;

peristome 150–230 µm, divided to 0.6, the teeth pale brownish, acute.

dirty white to light brown, enclosing the capsule.

7–9(–15) µm.

15–17 µm.