Campylopus surinamensis Müll. Hal.

12. Campylopus surinamensis Müll. Hal., Linnaea 2: 186. 1848. Type: Suriname, near Paramaribo, Kegel 516 (GOET, PC). - Campylopus gracilicaulis Mitt., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 12: 83. 1869. Type: Brazil, Rio Negro, Spruce 60 (NY). Description see Musci I in Fl. Suriname 6: 75 1964. Distribution: SE U.S.A., West Indies, C America, tropical S America. Ecology: Terrestrial on sand, clay or organic debris; in the Guianas rather common on granitic rockplateaus and in low savanna vegetations. Note This species is easy to recognize in its full-grown form by the comal tuft of spreading leaves at the end of an elongate stem with appressed leaves. Young plants, consisting of a low rosette, occasionally with only the distantly foliate stem, are sometimes difficult to identify. For differences with the closely related C. angustiretis see under that species. In Musci I Campylopus arenicola (Müll. Hal.)Mitt. was listed as a synonym, but in View of the lamellae at the back of the costa it should be considered a young form of C. trachyblepharon (Frahm 1991).Published as part of J. Florschutz-de Waard, H. R. Zielman & M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga, 2011, Flora of the Guianas, Series C, fascicle 2., Kew :Kew Publishing on page 1