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 to triangular-lingulate, 0.9–1.1 mm; appressed to spreading;

apex apiculate, acute or narrowly obtuse, appressed to spreading;

hyaline cells nonseptate and efibrillose.

terete.

straight to more typically curved, typically stout and blunt ended; strongly 5-ranked, leaves not much elongate at distal end.

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 to ovate-lanceolate, 1.4–1.8 mm; straight to often subsecund; weakly undulate and slightly recurved;

hyaline cells on convex surface with 1 pore per cell at apical end of cell, on concave surface with round wall thinnings in the cells ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells triangular to triangular-ovate in transverse section, very well-enclosed within concave surface.

dioicous.

dioicous.

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

25–28 µm; roughly papillous on both surfaces;

proximal laesura more than 0.5 the length of the spore.

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.;

branch stems green but often reddish at proximal end, with cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells.