Flora of North America species comparison

leaves triangular to lingulate-triangular, 0.8–1.3 mm; typically appressed;

apex acute to apiculate;

hyaline cells efibrillose and nonseptate to rarely septate.

leaves shorter than branch leaves, 0.8–1.6 mm, lingulate, hyaline cells non-septate above and commonly 1-septate below.

straight and somewhat tapered, usually 5-ranked;

leaves little elongate at the distal branch end.

short and blunt, branch leaves imbricate.

ovate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate; (1.1–)1.4–1.8(–3.1) mm; slightly undulate and sharply recurved when dry, somewhat subsecund;

margins entire;

hyaline cells on convex surface with usually 1 round pore on apical end, on concave surface with wall thinnings in the cell ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells broadly triangular in transverse section and very deeply enclosed on the concave surface.

0.9–2 mm, ovate, with conspicuously truncate apex, hyaline cells bulging on both surfaces, with 1–4 large circular to elliptic pores per cell on convex surface and 4–7 elliptic pores per cell on concave surface, internal commissural walls faintly papillose, cholrophyll cells elliptical to elliptical-ovate withn the broadest part typically some distance from convex surface.

dioicous.

unknown.

19–25 µm; finely papillose on both surfaces.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 2–3 pendent branches.;

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

fascicles typically with 2 spreading and 2 hanging branches.;

branch stems with single layer of cortical cells.