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.

green to dark brown;

superficial cortex of nearly undifferentiated.

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

straight and short.

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.

isophyllous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.2–2.8 mm;

apex rounded;

hyaline cells nonseptate, convex surface with 6–12 pores per cell along commissures, concave surface aporose.

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, 1.3–1.7 mm;

hyaline cells on convex surface with 8–18 elliptic pores more than 8 µm, concave surface aporose.

nearly all with 2 spreading branch only.

often monoicous.

unknown.

not seen.

20–27 µm, finely papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.

not seen.