Campylopus schimperi Milde

  • 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 schimperi Milde

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants in silky, yellow-green, compact tufts 1—2(—5) cm high, densely red-brown radiculose below. Leaves nearly appressed when dry, 4-5 mm long, gradually narrowed from an ovate base to a slender, channeled point, subentire or sparsely toothed at the extreme apex; costa about 2/3 of the leaf base, excurrent, smooth at back, without stereids; alar cells slightly differentiated, hyaline and not inflated or sometimes forming small, distinct, red-brown auricles; basal cells laxly rectangular, thin-walled, about 6 rows at the margins narrow and elongate as a distinct border extending well up the leaf; upper cells rectangular, 3—4:1 (20-24 x 5-7 µm). Setae 5 mm long, erect, pale; capsules ovoid, pale, ribbed; operculum long-rostrate. Spores 21-24 µm, brownish, finely papillose.

  • Discussion

    Figs. 101,102a-e

    C. schimperi Milde, Bot. Zeitung 22(Beibl.): 13. 1864.

    C. subulatus var. schimperi (Milde) Husn., Muse Gall. 43. 1884.

    C. subulatus ssp. schimperi (Milde) Dix., Stud. Handb. Brit. Mosses 91. 1896.

    The costa is smooth at back and lacks stereids. The alar cells are only slightly differentiated, though sometimes colored in small auricles. The basal cells are laxly rectangular, with those toward the margins being much narrower.

  • Distribution

    Rare, on rocks at high altitudes; Nayarit and Oaxaca.—Mexico; rare and scattered in northern and montane parts of North America; Newfoundland; Greenland; Europe; China.

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