Flora of North America species comparison

brown, superficial cortical cells aporose.;

stem leaves lingulate, 1.1–1.2 mm, apex slightly apiculate to mostly broad and erose to lacerate, border only slightly broadened at base;

hyaline cells rhomboid and 0–1-septate.

leaves triangular-lingulate to lingulate, 0.7–1.3 mm, appressed to stem, apex obtuse to broadly obtuse and erose to somewhat lacerate, hyaline cells efibrillose and nonseptate.

more or less 5-ranked.

curved, unranked to less commonly (in wet-grown forms) 5-ranked, leaves not much elongate at distal end.

0.95–1.3 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, concave, straight to slightly subsecund, apex involute;

hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous surface with numerous round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from large pores at the base to a mixture of small and tiny (2 µm) at the apex, concave surface with a few large, round pores/cell in lower side regions.

ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm, strongly undulate and moderately recurved when dry, straight;

margin entire;

greater than hyaline cells on convex surface with 1–2 pores per cell at cell apex, on concave surface with round wall thinnings in the cell ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells triangular in transverse section and typically just slightly exposed on the concave surface.

unknown.

dioicous.

23–25 µm; moderately to coarsely papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesura approximately 0.5 spore radius.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch.

fascicles with 2(–3) spreading and 2 pendent branches.;

branch stems green but sometimes reddish at proximal end, with cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells.