Campylium radicale (P.Beauv.) Grout

  • Authority

    Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part Two: Orthotrichales to Polytrichales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (2)

  • Family

    Campyliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Campylium radicale (P.Beauv.) Grout

  • Description

    Species Description - Slender plants in loose, light-green or yellowish mats, creeping. Leaves remote, 1-1.3 mm long, wide-spreading or squarrose from the insertion, ovate, rather abmptly narrowed to a slender acumen, abmptly rounded to the insertion and decurrent; costa 1/2-2/3 the leaf length; upper cells rhomboidal, about 5-6:1; alar cells somewhat enlarged, oblong, hyaline. Autoicous. Setae 2-4 cm long; capsules 1.5-2 mm long; cilia of endostome in groups of 1-3. Spores 9-11 µm, finely roughened.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 668

    C. radicale (P.-Beauv.) Grout, Bryologist 12: 96. 1909.

    Hypnum radicale?.-Beauv., Prodr. Aetheog. 65. 1805.

    Distinguishing features include the well-spaced leaves, spreading from the insertion and abmptly narrowed to the acumen and to the insertion.

  • Distribution

    On wet substrates; Distrito Federal and Puebla.—Mexico; widespread in eastern North America; Oregon and Washington; Europe; Japan.

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