Campylopus controversus (Hampe) A.Jaeger

  • Authority

    Frahm, Jan-Peter. 1991. Dicranaceae: Campylopodioideae, Paraleucobryoideae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 54: 1-238. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Dicranaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Campylopus controversus (Hampe) A.Jaeger

  • Type

    Type. Brazil. Glaziou 5204 (holotype, BM; isotypes, L, NY).

  • Synonyms

    Campylopus flaccidus Renauld & Cardot, Campylopus humoricola (Müll.Hal.) Paris, Campylopus macrogaster (Müll.Hal.) Broth., Dicranum macrogaster Müll.Hal., Campylopus mosenii Broth., Campylopus orthopelma (Müll.Hal.) Paris, Campylopus ouro-pretensis Paris, Campylopus pleurocarpus (Müll.Hal.) Paris, Campylopus rectipes Müll.Hal., Campylopus stramineolus Müll.Hal., Dicranum controversum Hampe, Dicranum flaccidum Müll.Hal., Dicranum humoricola Müll.Hal., Dicranum orthopelma Müll.Hal., Dicranum pleurocarpum Müll.Hal.

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants in loose tufts, glossy dark green, to 12 cm high. Stems slender, unbranched, equally foliate, at tips often homomallous, radiculose. Leaves 6-8 mm long, narrow lanceolate, longly pointed, serrate at tips. Costa longly excurrent, ridged and serrate at back, taking 1/3 of the leaf base, in transverse section with ventral and dorsal stereids. Alar cells well developed, hyaline or reddish. Basal laminal cells rectangular, incrassate and pitted, narrower at margins. Upper laminal cells short rectangular to rhomboid or oval. Seta 6-9 mm long, brownish, pseudolateral. Capsule 2 mm long, brownish, furrowed when dry and empty, slightly curved. Operculum obliquely rostrate.

  • Discussion

    This species is closely related to Campylopus stenopelma from S and SE Africa. The ranges of both species are on the same latitude and in the same geographical situation at the East coasts of the continents. They can therefore regarded as vicariant species derived from the same Mesozoic ancestor and could even be regarded as subspecies.

  • Distribution

    On wet rocks, wet banks and logs in rainforests and cloudforests in SE Brazil, from the lowlands to the forestline (2300 m), usually above 1000 m, rarely above the forestline up to 2600 m.

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