Campylopus carolinae

Grout

Moss Fl. N. Amer. 1: 249, plate 122. 1939,.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 369. Mentioned on page 367, 372.

Plants usually less than 1 cm, in loose mats, dark green to brownish green or blackish; leaves erect-patent; stems sparsely tomentose. Leaves 2.5–4 mm, small, lanceolate, ending in a concolorous straight tip, convolute in the distal part, with entire margins; alar cells not or only slightly differentiated; basal laminal cells rectangular, firm-walled, hyaline, 2.5–3.5:1, indistinctly bordered at margins; distal laminal cells oblique to oval, incrassate, ca. 3–5: 1; costa filling 1/3 of leaf width, excurrent in a straight, toothed, hyaline point, in transverse-section showing abaxial and adaxial stereids, ridged abaxially with prominent cells. Specialized asexual reproduction occasionally by means of deciduous stem tips. Sporophytes not known in area of the flora.


Habitat: Typically buried in white sand in depressions, in open pine and pine-oak forests and open grassland, coastal lowlands
Elevation: low elevations

Distribution

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Fla., N.C., South America (Brazil)

Discussion

The disjunction for Campylopus carolinae of western South America–southeastern North America is also found for C. angustiretis, C. surinamensis and C. pyriformis, which grow in similar habitats in white sand. The type material from Brunswick, North Carolina is mixed with C. surinamensis, which caused confusion and recognition of this species as a variety of C. delicatulus R. S. Williams (= C. angustiretis).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Campylopus carolinae"
dioicous +  and sexual +
lamellose +  and ridged +
not dehiscent +
persistent +  and deciduous +
Jan-Peter Frahm +
short to long +
bordered +  and firm-walled +
1 (?) +, 2.5 (?) +  and 3.5 (?) +
broader +
microphyllous +
reproduction +  and asexual +
pseudolateral +
entire +  and ciliate +
cucullate +
asymmetric +  and symmetric +
non-stereid +
reddish-brown +  and hyaline +
papillose +  and mammillose +
inflated +
differentiated +
twisted +  and sinuose +
percurrent;excurrent +
specialized +
excurrent +
Fla. +, N.C. +  and South America (Brazil) +
low elevations +
Typically buried in white sand in depressions, in open pine and pine-oak forests and open grassland, coastal lowlands +
microphyllous +  and foliate +
falcate-secund +
deciduous +
erect-patent +
lanceolate +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
nonpitted +  and pitted +
toothed +  and forked +
pitted-striolate +
papillose +  and striolate +
hyaline +, orange and horizontally striate +  and reddish +
straight +
toothed +
undifferentiated +
Moss Fl. N. Amer. +
cygneous +  and elongate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
spheric +
superficial +
Campylopus carolinae +
Campylopus +
species +
concolorous +
straight +
deciduous +
denticulate +
whitish +, reddish +  and dense +
lanceolate +
dark green +  and brownish green or blackish +