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 1.4–1.8 mm, elongate-triangular, lingulate-triangular, hemiisophyllous forms elongate triangular-ovate, 1.4–1.8 mm, apex usually conspicuously toothed, border narrow at base (less than 0.25 width);

hyaline cells narrowly rhombic to S-shaped, can be efibrillose and aporose but more commonly fibrillose and porose, 0–1-septate.

lacking or short and slender.

turgid and terete, leaves, not 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, 1.1–1.7 mm, slightly concave, straight, apex weakly involute and conspicuously toothed;

hyaline cells on the convex surface with round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from moderate-sized pores near apex to large pores at leaf base, concave surface with large round pores throughout.

dioicous.

uncertain, monoicous or dioicous or possibly both.

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.

22–25 µm, finely roughened.

fascicles none or 1 spreading branch.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches.