Flora of North America species comparison

leaves shorter than branch leaves, 0.8–1.6 mm, lingulate, hyaline cells non-septate above and commonly 1-septate below.

leaves lingulate-triangular to triangular-lingulate, equal to or less than 1.2 mm, more or less spreading;

apex obtuse;

hyaline cells mostly fibrillose and nonseptate.

short and blunt, branch leaves imbricate.

straight to distinctly curved, leaves becoming substantially longer at distal end of the branch.

0.9–2 mm, ovate, with conspicuously truncate apex, hyaline cells bulging on both surfaces, with 1–4 large circular to elliptic pores per cell on convex surface and 4–7 elliptic pores per cell on concave surface, internal commissural walls faintly papillose, cholrophyll cells elliptical to elliptical-ovate withn the broadest part typically some distance from convex surface.

ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm, straight to slightly subsecund, only slightly undulate and recurved if at all;

margin entire;

hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous small free pores, on concave surface with numerous round free pores, cells relatively short in basal region (similar to mid region); chlorophyllous cells ± triangular in transverse section, just reaching concave surface or slightly enclosed.

unknown.

dioicous.

25–32 µm, finely papillose on both surfaces.

fascicles typically with 2 spreading and 2 hanging branches.;

branch stems with single layer of cortical cells.

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

branch stems green, with cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells.