Flora of North America species comparison

erect, arising from a persistent protonema that reflects light, giving off a greenish golden color.

of sterile shoots 0.5–1.2 mm, ecostate, median cells smooth, oblong-rhomboidal, thin-walled, 16–20 µm wide, decurrent, confluent at the base, margin entire, weakly bordered by narrow, elongated cells.

of sterile shoots distichous-complanate.

2–5 mm.

straight, smooth.

apparently dioicous, though male and female plants develop on the same protonemal mat;

perichaetial leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, clustered distally on naked stem.

erect, light brown, smooth, subglobose or ovoid, annulus absent.

with peristome absent.

conic-mitrate.

yellowish green, pitted-reticulate, 10–13 µm.

sticky, elliptic.

gemmae sticky, obclavate, 80–200 × 15–20 µm, 3–4 cells in length, tapering and thickened near apex.

asexual structures sometimes present, developing on the protonema.

plano-convex.