Campylopus japonicus Broth.
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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.
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Family
Dicranaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants in loose, green tufts up to 3.5 cm high, reddish-tomentose below, equally foliate or sometimes interruptedly comose. Leaves loosely erect, 5-7 mm long, slenderly acuminate from a lanceolate base and (in sunny places) ending in a short or long, hyahne, toothed awn, tubulose in the upper 1/3; costa 1/2 or more of the leaf base, slightly ribbed at back, in section showing a few ventral stereids at the middle; alar cells conspicuously differentiated, reddish or hyaline (sometimes reddish within and hyaline at the margins); inner basal cells thick-walled, subquadrate to rectangular, 1-3:1, the marginal cells longer, narrower, and hyaline, in 3-7 rows; upper cells oval-elongate, with rounded ends owing to thickened corners, 13-26 x 5-7 µm, 3-6:1, those at the margins shorter. Sporophytes unknown in Mexico.
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Discussion
Fig. 99a-d
C. japonicus Broth., Hedwigia 38: 207. 1899.
C. saint-pierreiTher., Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 85(4): 3. 1931.
The plants are not very conspicuous, but they are easily recognized by slenderly subulate leaves, sometimes ending in a hyaline, toothed hair point, and basal cells differentiated into short, firm inner cells and long, thin-walled, hyaline outer cells.
The plants are not very conspicuous, but they are easily recognized by slenderly subulate leaves, sometimes ending in a hyaline, toothed hair point, and basal cells differentiated into short, firm inner cells and long, thin-walled, hyaline outer cells.
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Distribution
On rocks in coniferous and also evergreen rain forests at 1500-2400 m alt.; Chiapas, Hidalgo, Jalisco.—Mexico; British Columbia; Japan, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Tahiti, and Australia.
Australia Oceania| Malaysia Asia| China Asia| Taiwan Asia| Japan Asia| Canada North America| Mexico North America|