Flora of North America species comparison

0.5–2.5 cm, branches sometimes ascending.

3–5 cm, branches creeping.

straight or occasionally homomallous, oblong-ovate, tapering gradually to apex, 1–1.2 mm;

margins reflexed proximally;

apex acute;

alar cells enlarged, inflated, yellow, in 1 row, supra-alar cells few, quadrate to short;

laminal cells rhombic to flexuose.

erect to erect-spreading, oblong-ovate, tapering gradually to apex, 1.5–2 mm;

margins plane;

apex sometimes apiculate;

alar cells conspicuously enlarged, inflated, yellow to yellow-orange or unpigmented, in several rows, supra-alar cells few, rhomboid;

laminal cells flexuose.

0.8–1.2 cm.

1–2 cm.

inclined to horizontal, 1 mm.

inclined to horizontal, 1–1.2 mm.

asexual reproduction absent.

asexual reproduction absent.