Flora of North America species comparison

ovate to oblong-lanceolate, apex acute, mucronate to short-awned, occasionally comparatively long-awned, margins recurved proximally to nearly plane, not or weakly bordered distally with slightly thicker-walled cells;

costa excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2(–3) cells across adaxial surface;

distal laminal cells distally quadrate-hexagonal, width 13–17 µm, 1:1, weakly simply papillose or smooth.

long-ovate, elliptic or lingulate, apex rounded and short-apiculate or muticuous, margins weakly recurved in proximal 1/2 of leaf, weakly bordered in distal 1/2–3/4 of leaf with (2–)4–6 rows of thicker-walled, smaller cells;

costa subpercurrent, percurrent or shortly excurrent as a small, sharp mucro, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally somewhat narrow, 3–4 cells across adaxial surface;

distal laminal cells hexagonal, width 13–18(–24) µm, 1:1, strongly papillose.

very short.

0.9–1.5 cm.

autoicous.

dioicous.

cleistocarpic, spheric to very short-ellipsoid, erect, mostly 0.9–1.3 mm;

peristome absent;

operculum not differentiated.

stegocarpic, not systylius, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.5–2.5 mm;

peristome of 32 twisted filaments, basal membrane low;

operculum 1–1.5 mm.

(25–)33–40 µm, spheric, densely papillose.

13–15 µm, spheric, essentially smooth.

immersed.

exerted.