Flora of North America species comparison

leaves broadly ovate, 1.5–2(2.5) mm; straight;

hyaline cells fibrillose and nearly aporose, with single small pores occasionally found in the distal cell ends on the concave surface.

leaves lingulate, 0.8–1.3 mm;

apex broadly rounded and entire to lacerate, sometimes slightly mucronate or slightly denticulate;

hyaline cells rhombic, 0–1(–2)-septate, usually efibrillose.

lacking or short and slender.

long and slender to short and compact, unranked to 5-ranked.

when present similar to stem leaves but smaller, 0.8–1.2 mm, hyaline cells fibrillose and mostly aporose, 1–6 irregularly round-shaped membrane gaps in some cells near apex on convex surface.

ovate-lanceolate, 1.1–1.3 mm, straight, concave, apex strongly involute;

margins entire, hyaline cells on convex surface with round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from small pores near the leaf apex to large pores near the base, concave surface with large round pores in proximal marginal regions of leaf.

dioicous.

dioicous.

usually immersed in perichaetiale leaves, but may be slightly emergent, pseudostomata absent from capsule surface.

29–41 µm, coarsely papillose on both surfaces, indistinct raised sculpture on distal surface;

proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.

17–30 µm, finely papillose on proximal surface and pusticulate on distal surface;

proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.

fascicles none or 1 spreading branch.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches.