Flora of North America species comparison

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.

1–2 cm.

autoicous.

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.

12–18 µm, spheric, finely papillose.

exerted.