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 triangular to triangular-lingulate, 1.2–1.7 mm, apex acute to sometimes shortly cuspidate due to involute margins near apex, border narrow at base (less than 0.25 width);

hyaline cells mostly efibrillose and aporose, 0–1(–2)-septate.

lacking or short and slender.

long and tapering, unranked.

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.

1.3–2.7 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.3–2.7 mm, concave, straight, apex involute;

hyaline cells on convex surface with 2–6 large, narrowly elliptic ringed pores along the commissures, but usually absent from marginal regions of leaf, concave surface aporose or with 1–4 large round pores per cell especially near base.

dioicous.

monoicous.

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.

22–32 µm, finely to irregularly coarsely-papillose on proximal surface, irregularly coarsely papillose 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.