Status: Native
Synonyms:
Campylopus flexuosus auct. Amer. non (Hedw.) Brid.
Campylopus tallulensis is a smaller member of the Dicranaceae with stems less than a centimeter tall. The 3-5mm long leaves are erect spreading and little changed when moist. The long, acute tips of the leaves may be broken off. As in Paraleucobryum, the costa takes up a large proportion of the width of the leaf, up to 2/3 of the width in Campylopus. The broad costa is percurrent in the long tip. In Paraleucobryum, the costa has a central zone of chlorophyllose cells surrounded on both sides by hyaline cells. In Campylopus, the hyaline cells are grouped adaxially and their is an abaxial stereid band below. Kelly Allred found this specimen of C. tallulensis mixed with Weissia.
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Campylopus tallulensis, habit, Kelly Allred specimen with Jesse Allred, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Peloncillo Mtns., Geronimo Trail, Cty Rd 0002, NM/AZ state line, on thin soil in small drainage N of Rd in oak-juniper-pinyon woodland, November 24, 2000
Campylopus tallulensis, single stem, Kelly Allred specimen with Jesse Allred, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Peloncillo Mtns., Geronimo Trail, Cty Rd 0002, NM/AZ state line, on thin soil in small drainage N of Rd in oak-juniper-pinyon woodland, November 24, 2000
Campylopus tallulensis, leaf, Kelly Allred specimen with Jesse Allred, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Peloncillo Mtns., Geronimo Trail, Cty Rd 0002, NM/AZ state line, on thin soil in small drainage N of Rd in oak-juniper-pinyon woodland, November 24, 2000
Campylopus tallulensis, leaf base, Kelly Allred specimen with Jesse Allred, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Peloncillo Mtns., Geronimo Trail, Cty Rd 0002, NM/AZ state line, on thin soil in small drainage N of Rd in oak-juniper-pinyon woodland, November 24, 2000
Campylopus tallulensis, leaf apex, Kelly Allred specimen with Jesse Allred, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Peloncillo Mtns., Geronimo Trail, Cty Rd 0002, NM/AZ state line, on thin soil in small drainage N of Rd in oak-juniper-pinyon woodland, November 24, 2000
Campylopus tallulensis, proximal cross section of leaf, Kelly Allred specimen with Jesse Allred, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Peloncillo Mtns., Geronimo Trail, Cty Rd 0002, NM/AZ state line, on thin soil in small drainage N of Rd in oak-juniper-pinyon woodland, November 24, 2000
Campylopus tallulensis, distal cross section of leaf, Kelly Allred specimen with Jesse Allred, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Peloncillo Mtns., Geronimo Trail, Cty Rd 0002, NM/AZ state line, on thin soil in small drainage N of Rd in oak-juniper-pinyon woodland, November 24, 2000
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