Flora of North America species comparison

leaves narrowly triangular-lingulate, 1.5–2 mm, apex right-angled to apiculate, border moderately strong and greatly broadened at the base (more than 0.25 width);

hyaline cells rhombic, 0–1-septate, normally fibrillose near apex.

pink, superficial cortical cells aporose.;

stem leaves narrowly triangular to lingulate- triangular, 1.2–1.6 × 0.6–0.8 mm, length: width ratio ca. 2:1, apex apiculate, border strong and moderately broadened basally;

hyaline cells narrowly rhomboid and 1 to occasionally 2 septate, often fibrillose apically.

not 5-ranked, terete, long and tapering.

not 5-ranked.

ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–2.3 mm, straight, concave, apex strongly involute;

margins entire;

hyaline cells on convex surface with elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from moderate-sized pores near leaf apex to large pores at leaf base, concave surface with large round pores in proximal marginal regions of leaf.

1.3–1.5 × 0.5–0.55 mm, ovate-lanceolate, concave, straight, apex involute;

hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from large elliptical pores at the base to moderate-sized round pores at the apex, concave surface with a few large round pores scattered throughout.

dioicous.

unknown.

27–32 µm, finely papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch.