Campylopus pilifer

Bridel

Muscol. Recent., suppl. 4: 72. 1818,.

Synonyms: Campylopus leucotrichus Sullivant & Lesquereux
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 372. Mentioned on page 367, 371, 374.

Plants 0.5–3 cm long, in tufts, dirty green, olive green, or yellowish green, darker below, equally foliate, the fertile ones comose. Leaves 4–7 mm, erect spreading or loosely appressed, lanceolate, ending in a straight, more or less long serrate hairpoint; alar cells not differentiated or strongly developed, inflated, thin-walled, hyaline or reddish; basal laminal cells hyaline, thin-walled, rectangular, forming a V-shaped area; distal laminal cells oval to rhomboidal, ca. 2: 1; costa filling 1/2–3/4 of leaf width, excurrent in a hairpoint, in transverse-section showing adaxial hyalocysts and abaxial groups of stereids, abaxially with lamellae 3–4 cells high. Specialized asexual reproduction occasionally by deciduous stem tips. Seta often aggregated, about 5 mm, sinuose. Capsule 1.5 mm, slightly asymmetric, furrowed when dry, brownish; operculum rostrate. Calyptra fringed at base. Spores ca. 13 µm.


Habitat: Acidic sandy soil and acidic rocks (sandstone, granite), rock crevices, exposed, dry habitats
Elevation: 50-1500 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ariz., Ark., Ga., La., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Central America, South America, s, w Europe, Asia (Sri Lanka), c Africa

Discussion

The distribution of Campylopus pilifer in tropical America, tropical Africa, and Sri Lanka (but not other parts of Asia) suggests a Gondwanaland origin, from where the species has extended its range into warmer parts of North America and southwestern Europe. Until 30 years ago this species was not distinguished from C. introflexus, and accordingly all old references from North America must be referred to C. pilifer. The true C. introflexus has been a neophyte in North America since 1975.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Campylopus pilifer"
dioicous +  and sexual +
lamellose +  and ridged +
not dehiscent +
persistent +  and deciduous +
v--shaped +
Jan-Peter Frahm +
Bridel +
short to long +
broader +
microphyllous +
reproduction +  and asexual +
pseudolateral +
entire +  and ciliate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
thin-walled +
reddish +  and hyaline +
specialized +  and developed +
papillose +  and mammillose +
inflated +
not differentiated +
twisted +  and sinuose +
percurrent;excurrent +
excurrent +
Ala. +, Ariz. +, Ark. +, Ga. +, La. +, N.C. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +, Central America +, South America +, s +, w Europe +, Asia (Sri Lanka) +  and c Africa +
50-1500 m +
Acidic sandy soil and acidic rocks (sandstone, granite), rock crevices, exposed, dry habitats +
microphyllous +  and foliate +
falcate-secund +
deciduous +
appressed +, spreading +  and erect +
lanceolate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
nonpitted +  and pitted +
toothed +  and forked +
pitted-striolate +
papillose +  and striolate +
hyaline +, orange and horizontally striate +  and reddish +
undifferentiated +
Muscol. Recent., suppl. +
cygneous +  and elongate +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (?) +
spheric +
with dense reddish or whitish tomentum +  and not tomentose +
superficial +
Campylopus leucotrichus +
Campylopus pilifer +
Campylopus +
species +
straight +
deciduous +
denticulate +
whitish +, reddish +  and dense +
lanceolate +
darker +, yellowish green +, olive green +  and dirty green +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +