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.

pale green to pale brown, rarely with pinkish red patches, superficial cortex of undifferentiated to slightly differentiated cells.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

often monoicous.

dioicous.

20–27 µm, finely papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.

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

proximal laesura approximately 0.5 spore radius.