Flora of North America species comparison

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.

leaves triangular to lingulate-triangular, apex apiculate, acute and sometimes slightly obtuse, spreading or sometimes appressed;

hyaline cells nonseptate and often fibrillose at leaf apex.

turgid and often strongly curved.

straight to distinctly curved, leaves unranked to 5-ranked, leaves not greatly elongate at branch distal end.

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.

ovate to ovate-lanceolate, greater than 1.2 mm, often subsecund, slightly undulate and slightly recurved when dry;

margin entire;

hyaline cells on convex surface with 1 pore per cell in apical end, on concave surface with round wall thinnings in the cell ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells equilateral to isosceles-triangular, well-enclosed on the concave surface.

not known.

dioicous.

not seen.

not seen.

not seen.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 2 pendent branches.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches.;

branch stems with cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells, sometimes reddish at proximal end.