Flora of North America species comparison

leaves lingulate, 1–1.2 mm, apex entire to somewhat erose;

hyaline cells non-septate;

fibrillose and porose in apical region.

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

slender with small spreading leaves.

terete.

ovate-lanceolate, 1.4–1.6 mm, straight to slightly subsecund, weakly undulate, often recurved in capitulum branches;

hyaline cells on convex surface with up to 5 small round faint pores per cell in the basal portion of the cell and free from the cell margins, concave surface aporose.

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.

unknown.

dioicous.

not seen.

not seen.

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

fascicles with 2 spreading and 2 pendent branches.

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

branch stems with 1–2 layers of cortical cells.