Campylopus heterostachys (Hampe) A.Jaeger

  • Authority

    Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part One: Sphagnales to Bryales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (1): 1-452.

  • Family

    Dicranaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Campylopus heterostachys (Hampe) A.Jaeger

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants in loose, yellow-green tufts up to 5 cm high, densely whitish or reddish-tomentose, ± equally fohate. Leaves erectspreading, the upper part curled, 6-7 mm long, long-lanceolate, subulate, ending in a roughly dentate awn; costa 1/2 or more of the base, in section showing large ventral leucocysts (occupying 1/2 of the section), with a layer of smaller leucocysts below them, groups of 4—7 very small stereids except at the margins, and a dorsal layer of shghtiy protruding cells; alar cells hyaline or reddish and thin-walled in auricles, extending to the costa and intruding on it; basal cells hyaline, thin-walled, rectangular, those at the margins narrower; upper cells short-rectangular and ± opaque, 4-5 x 5-7 µm. Sporophytes not seen.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 93a-f

    C. heterostachys (Hampe) Jaeg., Ber. Thatigk. St. Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges. 1870-71: 421. 1872.

    Dicranum heterostachys Hampe, Flora 48: 581. 1865.

    Campylopus annotinus Mitt., J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 12: 80. 1869.

    Dicranum hellerianumHampe, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 1869:507. 1869.

    Campylopus hellerianus (Hampe) Jaeg., Ber. Thatigk. St. Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges. 1870-71: 417. 1872.

    Dicranum alopecurus C. Mull., Linnaea 43: 401. 1882.

    Campylopus alopecurus (C. Miill.) Kindb., Enum. Bryin. Exot. 88.1889.

    This species is distinguished from C. flexuosus by thinwalled, hyaline basal cells and alar groups occupying part of the costa, as well as the long, spine-like, serrate awn and structure of the costa (which has large, ventral leucocysts and narrow stereids vanishing toward the margins).

  • Distribution

    On tree trunks and decaying wood above 2000 m alt.; Chiapas, Jalisco, Puebla, Tamaulipas, Veracruz.—Mexico; Guatemala; Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, and Brazil.

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