Campylopus reflexisetus (Müll.Hal.) Broth.

  • Authority

    Frahm, Jan-Peter. 1991. Dicranaceae: Campylopodioideae, Paraleucobryoideae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 54: 1-238. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Dicranaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Campylopus reflexisetus (Müll.Hal.) Broth.

  • Type

    Type. Colombia. Antioquia: Paramo de Sonson, Wallis s.n. (holotype, destroyed at B; lectotypus nov., H-BR).

  • Synonyms

    Campylopus benedictii Herzog, Campylopus ptychotheca Herzog, Dicranum reflexisetum Müll.Hal.

  • Description

    Species Description - Slender plants in loose, greenish tufts to 6 cm high, slightly tomentose below, equally foliate. Leaves erect, spreading, 7-8 mm long, concave, narrowly lanceolate, ending in a very long, smooth subula (twice as long as the lamina). Costa filling 1/2 of the leaf base, smooth at back, excurrent, in transverse section with large ventral hyalocysts (more than half the height of the section), with dorsal stereids lacking toward the margins. Alar cells differentiated, hyaline or red-brown. Inner basal laminal cells rectangular, 38-60 × 15-18 µm, those at margins long, narrow and hyaline in 10-15 rows. Upper laminal cells elongate-oval, 20-25 × 6-8 µm Seta unusually long, to 15, rarely to 25 mm long, straight but cygneous when wet. Capsule 2 mm long, pale to dark brown in age, operculum cylindric, symmetric, long-rostrate.

  • Discussion

    This species resembles C. densicoma in the long leaf subula, which is, however, smooth and not toothed as in C. densicoma.

    Var. circinatus Theriot, Rev. Bryol. Lichénol. 11: 42. 1939 described from Bolivia (Herzog 3938, JE) differs by hamate leaves. It is probably a parallel form to C. densicoma var. yungarum. As in other hamate foliate forms in this genus, it is not known whether these are genetically distinct and require infraspecific differentiation.

  • Objects

    Specimen - 597084, C. Delgadillo Moya 572, Campylopus benedictii Herzog, Dicranaceae (24.0), Bryophyta; North America, Mexico, Michoacán

  • Distribution

    On moist, shaded cliffs and tree trunks, on rotten wood in montane rainforests (in Mexico also in humid pine-forests between 1200 and 3000 m), in Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

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