Flora of North America species comparison

leaves lingulate-triangular to lingulate, 1–1.4 mm, apex broadly rounded but becoming acute in hemiisophyllous forms, border strongly developed at base (more than 0.25 width);

hyaline cells rhombic and 0–3-septate with some cells in leaf midregion 2–septate.

leaves to 1.1 × 0.7 mm, commonly hemiisophyllous;

hyaline cells non-ornamented, mostly 1–2-septate.

weakly to strongly 5-ranked.

short and blunt at distal end, leaves loosely spreading.

ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.9–1.2 mm, concave, subsecund on some branches, apex involute;

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

ovate, to 2.2 × 1.1 mm; ovate, hyaline cells non-ornamented, on proximal half of convex surface with small ringed pores or pseudopores in groups of three where the corners join and pseudopores along the commissures; chlorophyllous cells narrowly rectangular, lenticular to narrowly trapezoidal in transverse section; exposed equally on both surfaces or more broadly on concave surface;

end walls not thickened.

dioicous.

dioicous.

with numerous pseudostomata.

18–33 µm, coarsely papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesura less than 0.4 spore radius.

25–39 µm;

surface smooth to irregularly and finely papillose;

indistinct Y-mark on distal surface;

proximal laesura more than 0.6 spore radius.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches.

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

branch stems with hyaline cells non-ornamented, no or weak funnel-like projection of end walls of cortical cells, cortical cells with one large pore per cell on superficial wall.