Flora of North America species comparison

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

(0.5–)1–4 cm tall, rather wiry, unbranched, comose at the tips, whitish tomentose only near the 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.

(2–)3–4 mm, erect, straight and slightly incurved when dry, erect-spreading when moist;

sheath ovate, ± contracted to the blade;

blade linear-lanceolate, turgid, with sharply infolded margins, the leaf apex abruptly contracted to the base of the awn;

marginal lamina 5–8 cells wide, 1-stratose, membranous, entire to finely serrulate toward the apex, enclosing the lamellae and overlapping in distal half or more;

costa typically smooth abaxially, long-excurrent as a spinulose-toothed, hyaline awn;

lamellae in profile crenulate-dentate to serrulate, with crenulations directed towards the leaf apex, (4–)6–8 cells high, the marginal cells in section conic to distinctly pyriform, terminating in a distinct knob, the marginal cells of the lateral lamellae ovoid, thinner-walled;

sheath cells 60–80 × 10–15 µm, elongate-rectangular (4–6:1);

cells of marginal lamina transversely elongated, ± irregular and sinuous, smaller toward the margins and obliquely oriented, especially approaching the apex, thick-walled.

2–4 cm, yellowish to reddish brown.

1–3 cm, stout, flexuose, reddish brown.

dioicous;

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

dioicous;

perigonia intense wine-red;

perichaetial leaves a little longer than foliage leaves, with hyaline lamina and longer awns.

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.

2.5–3.5 mm, short to almost cubic (1.5–2:1), inclined, becoming horizontal when mature;

peristome rather short, 110–180(–200) µm, divided to 0.6, the teeth about 64, obtuse.

dirty white to light brown, enclosing the capsule.

dirty white to light brown, enclosing the capsule.

7–9(–15) µm.

9–12 µm.