Campylopus lamellinervis (Müll. Hal.)

J. Florschutz-de Waard, H. R. Zielman & M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga, 2011, Flora of the Guianas, Series C, fascicle 2., Kew: Kew Publishing, pp. 4-13 : 8-9

6. Campylopus lamellinervis (Müll. Hal.) Mitt., J. Linn. Soc _ Bot. 12: 82 _ l 869. - Dicranum lamellinerve Müll. Hal. , Syn. Musc _ Frond. 1: 390. 1 849 _ Type: Jamaica, Wilson S.n _ (destroyed at B, isotypes not located). - Fig. 48

Robust plants growing in loose tufts. Stems to 8 cm long, seldom divided., densely tomentose in lower pan. Leaves squarrose-spreading, flexuose when dry, slenderly lanceolate, to 15 mm long, long-acuminate, margin sharply serrate in upper leaf half; costa filling ca. l/3 of leaf base, with conspicuous lamellae at back, excurrent and toothed at apex, in cross-section with groups of stereids at ventral and dorsal side, lamellae 2-3 cells high; alar cells inflated, brownish, forming distinct auricles, basal laminal cells elongate-rectangular, strongly incrassate and porose, towards margins narrower and not porose, forming a short hyaline border, laminal cells at midleaf incrassate, along the costa elongate-rectangular, towards margins and in the narrow upper lamina rectangular to quadrate with oval lumen. Sporophyte not seen.

Distribution 1 West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia Peru, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana.

Ecology: Terrestrial and epiphytic, in moist savanna forest, at higher kil[l[ll(.l€S.

Specimen examined: Guyana: Upper Mazaruni R., Karowtipu Mt. alt. 1000 m, Boom et al, 7620 (NY) _

Note: Buck (2003) reported C. lamellinervis var. exaltatus (Müll. Hal.) Frahm for French Guiana. This variety is distinguished from the species by straight, lanceolate leaves/gg, 6- 10 mm long, serrulate at extreme apex.