Plants small, 0.8-2.0 mm wide,  olive green to brownish, intercalary branching, distant to slightly imbricate
obovate obdeltoid
1.2-1.4x longer than wide
lobes fragmenting
truncatre to truncate-rounded (ignoring fragmentation)
not or very shortly decurrent
not ampliate
Normal leaf form is difficult to describe because mature leaves undergo fragmentation. Some leaves deeply 2-3 lobed, leaves strongly fragmenting, part of the leaf lamina and/or teeth
broken off, especially the upper part of the leaves
isodiametric to elongate
to 20-25 µm wide in midleaf
bulging to large
smooth
9-14 per cell, more or less fusiform to ellipsoidal, (from RMS 1980)
maybe evaluate
narrowly ovoid in dorsal view (RMS 1980)
Spinose-dentate
 leaf fragmentation

General distribution: Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee