Flora of North America species comparison

pink, superficial cortical cells aporose.;

stem leaves narrowly triangular to lingulate- triangular, 1.2–1.6 × 0.6–0.8 mm, length: width ratio ca. 2:1, apex apiculate, border strong and moderately broadened basally;

hyaline cells narrowly rhomboid and 1 to occasionally 2 septate, often fibrillose apically.

leaves triangular-lingulate to ovate-lingulate, 0.8–0.9 mm, apex rounded, straight;

hyaline cells mostly non-septate, fibrillose in distal 1/3–2/3 of leaf, a few ringed pores at corners of cells and along commissures on convex surface, ringed pores along the commissures on the concave surface in greater numbers than on convex surface.

not 5-ranked.

short, not turgid.

1.3–1.5 × 0.5–0.55 mm, ovate-lanceolate, concave, straight, apex involute;

hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from large elliptical pores at the base to moderate-sized round pores at the apex, concave surface with a few large round pores scattered throughout.

broad-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.9–2.1 mm, straight;

hyaline cells with numerous ringed pores (10–20) along the commissures on the convex surface, a few pseudopores and ringed pores (less than 8 per cell) occur on the cell angles on the concave surface.

unknown.

dioicous.

exserted, with few pseudostomata.

36–39 µm; coarsely papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesura less than or equal to 0.5 spore radius.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch.

fascicles with 2–3 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches.