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Anacolia campylopus (Schimp.) Fransén

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Anacolia campylopus is distinguished from A. laevisphaera by its smaller size, unistratose leaf lamina, shorter basal leaf cells, centrally placed papillae, and curved setae. Central American plants of A. campylopus, both within and between collections, are remarkably variable in over-all aspect, branching pattern, leaf shape and cell shape. Some collections have plants with very broadly ovate-lanceolate leaves that give them a turgid aspect, and on this basis the var. latifolia was recognized. There are, however, many plants with intermediate-shaped leaves (e.g., Standley 81677, FH, NY) that span the gap in leaf shape between typical plants and var. latifolia. The variety aristifolia has been used for small plants with long-excurrent costae.

This species has usually been called A. intertexta (Schimp.) Jaeg., but that name is superfluous (see Fransén 1988) since one of its types (Mathews 586) is the type of a previously described species (Gymnostomum setifolium Hook. & Arnott).

Illustrations: Bartram (1949, Fig. 86 A–C); Flowers (1952, Figs. 33–49); Sharp et al. (1994, Fig. 433). Fig. 186 A–F.

Habitat: On damp banks, rocks or limestone boulders in alpine meadows or forests (Pinus-Cupressus or Juniperus), and on tree trunks; 2700–4000 m.

Distribution in Central America: GUATEMALA. Huehuetenango: Steyermark 50231 (F, FH, MO, NY, US); Quezaltenango: Steyermark 34764 (F, FH, NY); San Marcos: Steyermark 35896 (F, FH); Sololá: Steyermark 46932 (F, FH, MO, NY, US).

World Range: Mexico; Central America; Western and Northern South America.

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Anacolia campylopus (Schimp. ex C. Müll) Fransén, Lindbergia 14: 31. 1988.

Bartramia campylopus Schimp. ex C. Müll., Syn. Musc. Frond. 2: 619. 1851. Flowersia campylopus (Schimp. ex C. Müll.) Griffin & Buck, Bryologist 92: 372. 1989. Protologue: Mexico. Pico de Orizaba, alt. 12000': Liebmann. Lectotype (Fransén 1988) Liebmann no. 17 (BM).

Anacolia intertexta (Schimp.) Jaeg. ex Par. var. aristifolia Thér., Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 78(2): 18. 1926. Protologue. Mexico. Cerro San Miguel [Arsène] 4873 (FH), [Arsène] 5076 (FH), syn. nov.

Anacolia intertexta (Schimp.) Jaeg. ex Par. var. latifolia Flowers, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 79: 172. 1952. Protologue: Guatemala. Dept. of Huehuetenango: El Mirador, at summit of road leading from Huehuetenango to Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, alt. about 3,340 M. Standley, Field Mus. of Nat. Hist. Exped. Pl. Guatemala 81852, (F, FH), syn. nov.

Plants slender to medium-sized, yellow-green, sometimes glossy, to 9 cm high. Stems red, laxly ascending, variously branched, hyalodermis absent, epidermal cells papillose-roughened, central strand well-developed, usually strongly tomentose at base; rhizoids reddish brown, densely papillose; axillary hairs 5–7-celled, lower 1–2 cells quadrate, brown, upper cells elongate, hyaline. Leaves 2–4 mm long, closely spaced, appressed and imbricate when dry, secund to erect or erect-spreading when wet, ovate-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, plicate at base, spreading from the insertion; apex narrowly acuminate; margins bistratose, doubly serrate, revolute below, plane above; costae excurrent into a short or long, spinose arista; upper cells unistratose, rounded, quadrate, oblate to sublinear, thick-walled, papillose with 1(–2) more or less central papillae, 6–17 x 5–7 μm, lower cells irregularly quadrate to short-rectangular, 7–25 x 5–10 μm, alar cells rounded, quadrate to oblate in variously sized groups. Dioicous. Sporophytes not known from Central America. “Seta short, curved to sigmoid, 1 cm long or less, usually about as long as the capsule, brownish yellow or straw-colored. Capsules nearly globose, 3–4 mm in diameter, irregularly wrinkled when dry, reddish brown, neck region small, usually not differentiated, mouth very small, lid low convex, annuli lacking. Exothecial cells thin and transparent, irregularly quadrate to hexagonal, below mouth 6–8 rows becoming smaller, thicker-walled, darker colored, and transversely elongated; also becoming smaller and darker in the neck region, with numerous sunken stomata. Spores ovoid-reniform, about 17–27 μm, slightly roughened with low convex wart-like papillae” (Flowers 1952).