Flora of North America species comparison

leaves generally longer than branch leaves, 1.1–1.7 mm, lingulate to lingulate-spathulate, hyaline cells mostly non-septate.

leaves triangular-lingulate to lingulate; 0.8–1.2 mm;

apex rounded and sometimes erose;

hyaline cells non-septate or sometimes septate, usually fibrillose in distal 1/2 of leaf, convex surface with very small pores (ca. 2 µm) along commisures and free, concave surface with fewer commissural pores.

terete.

turgid and often strongly curved.

1–1.4 mm, broadly ovate, with a narrow involute tip;

hyaline cells only slightly bulging on either surface, in proximal half of leaf aporose on convex surface and with large faint pores on concave surface;

internal commissural walls distinctly papillose; chlorophyllous cells elliptical to elliptical-triangular in transverse section, enclosed on both surfaces with the widest part in the leaf middle.

ovate-lanceolate; 1.4 or more mm; mostly subsecund;

hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous small (2 µm or more) pores along the commissures and sometimes free, concave surface with no pores or fewer small pores along the commissures.

dioicous.

not known.

not seen.

ca. 31 µm, ornamented by small somewhat amalgamated granulae.

not seen.

fascicles of 2 spreading and 1–2 hanging branches.;

branch stems with 1–2 layers of cortical cells.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 2 pendent branches.