Flora of North America species comparison

pale green to straw-colored;

superficial cortical with a large round pore in distal portion of cell free from cell wall.

brown, superficial cortical cells aporose.

not 5-ranked, quite terete, long, and slender Branch fascicles with 1– 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches.

more or less 5-ranked.

spatulate to broad-spatulate, 0.8–1.5(–2) mm, strongly lacerate across the broad apex and often part way down the margins, border scarcely to strongly broadened at base (0.25 width of base or less);

hyaline cells rhomboid, efibrillose and often 1–2-septate.

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.

ovate to ovate-lanceolate; 1.1–1.5(–2) mm, slightly concave, straight;

apex involute;

margins entire;

hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous pores along the commissures grading from small pores near leaf apex to large pores at base, concave surface with large round pores at leaf apex and along margins.

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.

with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch.

often monoicous.

unknown.

20–27 µm, finely papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.