Campylium stellatum (Hedw.) C.E.O.Jensen
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Authority
Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part Two: Orthotrichales to Polytrichales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (2)
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Family
Campyliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Moderately robust plants in loose or dense, green, yellow, golden, or brownish, ± shiny mats or tufts. Stems irregularly branched, ascending. Leaves crowded, erect to ± widespreading from a broad, suberect base, ± striolate when dry, 1.2-2.6 mm long, broadly ovate or cordate-ovate at the base, gradually narrowed to a long, slender acumen, entire (or ± sermlate near the base); costa none or short, slender, and single or double (sometimes about 1/4—1/3 the leaf length); upper cells linear; basal cells thick-walled and pitted, the alar cells rather conspicuously differentiated, enlarged, short-oblong, becoming thick-walled and brownish with age. Dioicous. Setae 20-35 mm long; capsules 2-3 mm long. Spores 15-18 µm, finely papillose.
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Discussion
Fig. 667
C. stellatum (Hedw.) C. Jens, in Lange, Meddel. Gr0nland 3: 328. 1887.
Hypnum stellatum Hedw., Sp. Muse 280. 1801.
Campy Hade Iphus stellatus (Hedw.) Kanda, J. Sci. Hiroshima Univ. B2, 15:269. 1975 [1976].
The species grows in wet, base-rich habitats. It is generally robust, densely tufted, and golden-brown. The leaves are more or less squarrose-spreading and, when dry, longitudinally striolate, with somewhat inflated alar cells but no costa.
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Distribution
At edge of a lake at 1800 m alt.; Chiapas (Lake Tepancuapan).—Mexico; Guatemala; reported from Haiti; Greenland and Newfoundland to Alaska and the Aleutians, south to Oregon, New Mexico, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, and the Southern Appalachian Mountains; northern, western, and central Europe; reported from Afghanistan; Japan.
Mexico North America| Guatemala Central America| Haiti South America| Greenland North America| Canada North America| United States of America North America| Europe| Afghanistan Asia| Japan Asia|