Campylium polygamum (Schimp.) C.E.O.Jensen

  • 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 polygamum (Schimp.) C.E.O.Jensen

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants of moderate to rather robust stature, in loose or dense, yellowish- to brownish-green or golden-brown, slightly shiny mats. Stems irregularly branched. Stem and branch leaves similar, often crowded, spreading to wide-spreading from the insertion, not or slightly striolate when dry, 1.2-3.5 mm long, broadly lanceolate or ovate, gradually long-acuminate, ± channeled above, entire; costa single, 1/2-3/4 the leaf length; upper cells linear-rhomboidal; alar cells oblong and inflated in large concave, hyaline to golden-brown groups. Inflorescences and sporophytes not seen in Mexican material.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 669

    C. polygamum (B.S.G.) C. Jens, in Lange, Meddel. Gr0nland 3: 329. 1887.

    AmblystegiumpolygamumB.S.G., Bryol. Eur. 6(fasc 55/56). 1853.

    Campy Hade Iphus polygamus (B.S.G.) Kanda, J. Sci. Hiroshima Univ. B2, 15:267. 1975 [1976].

    The singly costate leaves and well-marked alar cells are the distinctive features ofthe species.

  • Distribution

    Known from a single Mexican locality where it grew with Bryum pseudotriquetrum on a marshy creek bank at 2950 m alt. (Chiapas, Mun. Tenejapa, Breedlove 15178, MICH)—Mexico; Greenland; Newfoundland to British Columbia and south to Wyoming, the Great Lakes region and southward along the coast to Florida; Europe and Asia; reported in Australia, New Zealand, and Patagonia.

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