Campylium chrysophyllum (Brid.) Lange

  • 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 chrysophyllum (Brid.) Lange

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants rather small, in green, yellow-green, or yellow-brown, sometimes ± shiny mats. Stems creeping, freely and irregularly branched. Leaves typically wide-spreading to squarrose, often somewhat to distinctly secund, 1.2-4 mm long, ovate or lanceolate, rather abmptly narrowed to an acumen, rounded to the base, usually faintly striolate when dry; margins entire above, not or slightly sinuate or ± denticulate at the base; costa slender, single, 1/2-2/3 the leaf length; upper cells oblong-linear; alar cells small, quadrate to short-oblong, and firm-walled to ± enlarged, thick-walled, and porose. Dioicous. Setae 10-27 mm long, becoming red; capsules 2-3 mm long, contracted below the mouth when dry and empty; annulus of 2 rows of cells; operculum stoutly obliqueapiculate. Spores 13-14 µm, faintly roughened.

  • Discussion

    Figs. 670e, 671

    C. chrysophyllum (Brid.) J. Lange, Nomencl. Fl. Dan. 210. 1887.

    Hypnum chrysophyllum Brid., Muscol. Recent. 2(2): 84. 1801.

    Campylium chrysophyllum has unicostate leaves that are crowded and typically squarrose from a clasping base but occasionally merely spreading or slightly to strongly secund.

  • Distribution

    On moist soil and rocks, especially on banks, at 200-2800 m alt.; Aguascalientes, Baja California, Chiapas, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Michoacan, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz.—Mexico; Guatemala; Colombia; the Greater Antilles; Newfoundland to British Columbia, widespread in eastern North America and in the mountains of the West; Europe; Japan; reported from North Africa and the Caucasus.

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