Campylopus pilifer Brid.

  • 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.

  • Family

    Dicranaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Campylopus pilifer Brid.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants in rigid, green to brownish-green tufts 0.5-5 cm high, sparsely reddish-tomentose, equally fohate (only perichaetial leaves forming comose tufts). Leaves 5-7 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, subtubulose above, entire except for a hyaline, serrate a w n of various lengths; costa 1/2-2/3 the leaf base, ribbed at back because of lamellae 2-4 cells high, excurrent, in section showing a layer of dorsal stereids in groups of 3-5 cells; alar cells not or somewhat differentiated; basal cells hyahne, thin-walled, long-rectangular, narrower at the margins, extending 1/3 up the leaf margins; upper cells shortly oval to oblong-rhombic, 9-16 x 7-8 µm. Setae 3-5 mm long; capsules 1.5 mm long, ovoid, brownish. Spores 13 µm, pale brown, roughened. Calyptrae fringed.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 95g-k, 96

    C. pilifer Brid., Muscol. Recent. Suppl. 4: 72. 1819.

    C. polytrichoidesDe Not., Syll. Muse. 222. 1838.

    Dicranum liebmannii C. Miill., Syn. Muse. Frond. 2: 601. 1851.

    ?D. lamellicosta [sic] C. Mull., Syn. Muse. Frond. 2: 601. 1851.

    W. lutescens C. Mull., Syn. Muse. Frond. 2: 602. 1851.?Campylopus vitzliputzli Lor., Moosstud. 158. 1864.

    C. luridus Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16:168. 1872.

    C. pilosissimusSchimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 168. 1872.

    C. lamellicostus (C. Miill.) Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 167. 1872.

    C. liebmannii (C. Müll.) Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 167. 1872.

    C. strictus Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16:167. 1872.

    C. introflexus Eur. & N. Amer. authors, non (Hedw.) Brid., 1826.

    This common species, generally known, incorrectly, in the American hterature as C. introflexus, has hyaline, serrate awns, ribs at the back of the costa, and poorly differentiated alar cells.

  • Distribution

    Very common on exposed rocks, boulders, cliffs, and dry soil on banks of roads and trails in oak-pine forests; Baja California, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz.—Arizona to northern South America; Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico; southeastern United States; Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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