Campylopus julicaulis Broth.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Dicranaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Campylopus julicaulis Broth.

  • Type

    Type. Brazil. Parana: Roca Nova, Dusen 245 (holotype, H-BR; isotypes, FH, JE, NY).

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants slender, in loose tufts, light green. Stems erect, to 4 cm high, densely reddish tomentose, equally foliate giving the plants a filiform appearance. Leaves appressed to the stem when dry, erect patent when wet, 5 mm long, lanceolate, concave, with canaliculate tips, serrate at tips. Costa filling 2/3 of the leaf width, excurrent, in transverse section with ventral hyalocysts and a ventral band of stereids, ridged at back. Alar cells hyaline or brownish, thin-walled. Basal laminal cells rectangular, incrassate, 6-16 × 2654 µm, narrower at margins. Upper laminal cells small, subquadrate, incrassate, 6-10 × 10-16 µm. Sporophyte not known.

  • Objects

    Specimen - 01229836, H. S. Irwin 30855, Campylopus julicaulis Broth., Dicranaceae (24.0), Bryophyta; South America, Brazil, Bahia

  • Distribution

    For 50 years this species was known only from the type locality in Paraná. Recently, however, it has been collected throughout SE Brazil, where it occurs on rotten wood, stems of fern trees and rocks between 300 and 2200 m.

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