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.

oblong-lanceolate to obovate or long-elliptic, apex rounded-acute, mucronate to short-awned, margins recurved at base or somewhat higher, not bordered or bordered at base with 3–5 rows of thicker-walled cells, 1–3:1;

costa excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally very gradually narrowing, 3–5 cells across the weakly convex adaxial surface;

distal laminal cells rounded-hexagonal, 14–20(–28) µm wide, 1:1, not papillose or very weakly so.

very short.

1–2 cm.

autoicous.

autoicous.

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 3–6 mm;

peristome 1700–2000 µm, teeth of 32 filaments twisted at least 1 full turn, basal membrane high, ca. 1000 µm;

operculum ca. 1–2 mm.

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

12–18 µm, spheric, finely papillose.

immersed.

exerted.