Flora of North America species comparison

leaves 1.2 mm or more, broadly triangular to triangular-lingulate, 1.2 or more, apex acute, border broad at base (more than 0.25 width);

hyaline cells mostly efibrillose, 1–2-septate.

leaves triangular-lingulate to lingulate, 0.7–1.4 mm;

apex rounded-obtuse and weakly denticulate;

hyaline cells nonseptate, mostly efibrillose, and, if porose, with more pores per cell on the concave surface (3–6) than on the convex surface (0–2).

uncrowded, 5-ranked.

somewhat curved, leaves spreading.

ovate-lanceolate, 0.7 mm or more, straight, concave, loosely involute from apex to middle or near base;

concave surface with few (2–4) small, rounded, or elliptic pores, especially in cell angles, concave surface aporose or with 1–2 pores at cell ends.

ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.2–2 mm;

subsecund;

hyaline cells with numerous tiny pores in a continuous line along the commissures on the convex surface, no or scattered pores on the concave surface.

unknown.

dioicous.

exserted, with scattered pseudo-stomata.

unknown.

22–28 µm;

papillose on both surfaces;

proximal laesurae more than 0.5 spore radius.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch.

fascicles with 2–3 spreading and 2–3(4) pendent branches.