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.

pale green to yellowish;

superficial cortex of 2 layers of enlarged, thin-walled and well differentiated cells.;

stem leaves triangular, triangular-lingulate to lingulate, more than 0.8 mm, appressed, apex obtuse to broadly obtuse, erose to fimbriate;

hyaline cells efibrillose and nonseptate.

terete.

straight and often tapering, often 5-ranked, leaves not much elongate at distal end of branches.

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, 1.4–2 mm, straight; slightly undulate and sharply recurved;

margins entire;

hyaline cells on convex surface with 1 pore per cell at cell apex, concave surface with round wall thinnings in the cell ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells triangular in transverse section and well-enclosed on concave surface.

dioicous.

dioicous.

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

22–28 µm;

papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesura more than 0.5 spore radius.

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, cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells.