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.

ovate to oblong, apex broadly acute or occasionally rounded, apiculate or short- to long-mucronate, occasionally short-awned, margins recurved in middle 2/3 of leaf or occasionally almost plane, not or very weakly bordered distally with ca. 2 rows of rhomboid, less papillose cells;

costa subpercurrent, percurrent or excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2–3 cells across the convex adaxial surface;

distal laminal cells hexagonal, 15–20 µm wide, 1:1, densely papillose with several 2-fid papillae.

very short.

0.9–1.2(–1.9) cm.

autoicous.

autoicous.

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

peristome absent;

operculum not differentiated.

stegocarpic, rarely systylius, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.5–2(–2.8) mm;

peristome (150–)300–350 length µm, teeth 16, usually not twisted, divided to near the base or perforate basally, the teeth often basally fused in 2s or 4s, basal membrane very low;

operculum 0.7–1 mm.

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

ca. 20–23(–25) µm, spheric or elliptic, densely papillose.

immersed.

exerted.