Campilium ( lat. Campylium ) is a genus of leaf-stemmed mosses of the family Amblistegieva. Tender or relatively powerful, forming green, yellowish, brownish or golden turf, small or medium sized ground or swamp mosses.
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Campylium stellatum |
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| International scientific name |
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Campylium Mitten , 1869 |
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Stems are creeping or erect, cirrus, sometimes almost bunch-like or fork-shaped. Usually without paraphillia. Hyaloderm and central bundle are absent, rhizoids are slightly or strongly branched, smooth or slightly warty-papillose.
Leaves 1-4.6 mm in size, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with a deflected, protruding or bent long grooved apex. Usually with brownish small ears and a thin vein reaching the middle or to the top of the leaf. Sometimes the vein is forked and very short or absent. Leaf cells are narrow, prosenchymal, square in the ears on the base of the sheet.
The box is inclined or horizontal, almost cylindrical, bent. Dry box - strongly bent, narrowed under the mouth. The cap is pointed or blunt.
62 species are described, 24 species are accepted. Distributed in Eurasia, North and South America, New Zealand, the islands of the Atlantic. Campillium is found in more or less mineral-rich wetlands, mostly wet or humid.
In Russia, about 10 species.
